Name of performance: Sun Dogs
Direction: Emily Bailey and Sarah McLaughlin
Set design: Sarah McLaughlin
Light and projection design: Emily Bailey
Costume design: Eileen Newton
Choreography: Lorraine Smith
Staff experience:
Set design: Sarah McLaughlin is a freelance theatre-practitioner and visual artist. Having recently been granted Artslinks Bursary Award from the Irish Arts Council in 2008, she is currently enrolled in the London University of the Arts. She has twice receiving the award for Best Set Design at the National Irish Student Drama Awards.
Light and projection design: Emily Bailey is a video installation artist who is currently studying for her MA in Sculpture at Wimbledon College of Art.
Costume design: Eileen Newton currently works as the costume technician for Wimbledon College of Art.
Choreography: Lorraine Smith is the founder of Silversmith Performance Company. She trained in Butoh and has performed in the Shunt Vaults on two previous occasions.
Synopsis: Sun Dogs is a multimedia, site-specific performance. The piece draws inspirations from the distortion of light, which occurs in the labyrinthine passageways of the London Underground. Through a deconstruction of the movement of Butoh this piece will reinterpret the sun dance rituals from Inuit culture. Using the human body as a projection surface to reflect and refract light this piece will create a visual dialogue between the dancers’ bodies. Live tribal drumming will provide the soundscape. The performers will eventually leave but aspects of the performance will remain, thus blurring the lines between performance and installation
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Time Frame for installation and strike:
As the set is quite minimal the installation and strike will take a day either side.
Technical Rider
Equipment needs for performance
6 Stage Lights (par cans and source four pars are preferable),
2 projectors,
Hazer,
2 speakers,
amp,
mixing desk,
CD Player,
ladders for installation
and safety cables to secure the equipment.
Today, during the debriefing of our group project, we were advised to wait a week before writing about the performance on our blogs. I think this is very wise advice, because although I have already gained a great deal from the making of Ambient Noise, I believe that with a little more time to reflect upon the experience my understanding of the process will evolve further. So for now I will say little about the work, and until I do here are some images to fill the silence.
Having been a curator of the first week of our MA exhibition, I had a great deal of sympathy for the curators of the second week. For this reason, when I submitted my work which was to be displayed in the second week, I made no demands on how I wanted it to be presented. In doing this I intended to make life a little easier for the curators, however, I can now see that this choice was in fact a mistake on my part. In the end, I felt that my piece was not presented in its best light... quite literally!
