Category: music for movement 

Collaborators:  

Ruby Frances Jones (Choreographer) 

Elisa Mozzanica, Ryan Taylor (Dancers) 

 

During my two-month-long collaboration with American dancer and choreographer Ruby Frances Jones, we explored relationships between body, sound and movement. Inspired by the principal features of the human being and its equivalent, the construction of mechanical creatures, we decided to focus on the idea of malfunctioning bodies.

 

The opposition of humanity and inhumanity features become a lead principle of the project where sounds produced by human beings are combined with computer-generated ones. The idea of the mind and body being disconnected became important during the creation process: the bodies in malfunction (h2t) are not functioning as a human body - they are malfunctioning bodies, making them inhuman. The music progresses parallel to the movement - two creatures are initially formed from a tiny finger to a full form of one body, then they separate into two independent entities as cells do. The word transformation seems to be appropriate. The music replicates moving bodies e.g. the blend of man and woman's breaths is developing slowly into rhythmic patterns blending into the computer-generated soundscape.    

 
 LOOK! 

distortion: a cell dividing
ghoulish! 
we 
seek. struggle. vibrate. hesitate. contort. grovel. malfunction. 
expose.expose.expose. 
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in h a l e  
e x h a l e
. 
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distortion: a becoming

we are other.

 

 

For the past 16 years, Collaborations has been a landmark of London Contemporary Dance School’s performance calendar. These evenings showcase the culmination of three parallel projects in which students from London Contemporary Dance School are paired with either design students from Wimbledon College of Art, composers from Guildhall School of Music & Drama or moving image students from Central Saint  Martins, University of the Arts London. 

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Malfunction (h2t) premiered on the 1st and 2nd of December 2016 at The Robin Howard Theatre (The Place) in London, United Kingdom. 

 

 

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Watch malfunction (h2t) here: