The aim in this dance movement is to move into and inhabit, through movement or activity which one would not normally expect to see or find, spaces which are on the edge or periphery of thoroughfares or our everyday involvement with the city. Incongruous or disassociated movement lends a certain surreal note to the place, activates it and encourages a question in the mind of the viewer - what is going on here? What was that? So our movement tracks and negotiates the space in a fresh way, hoping to instigate a different kind of energy and useage in these forgotten environments. Subliminal events half-noticed from a distance in the middle of a busy day. These rolling studies are also pre-cursors to my current involvement with the urban myth I am creating re 'Leaving' existing in all our relations with the people and spaces we inhabit. The rolling becomes a visitation - the emergence of an entity 'other' than the usually lived-in, upright and therefore 'normal' body. This 'other' body can behave outside the norm and recognises the station floor as a surface upon which may be inscribed marks, traces and memory.
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