Screening of 'Note' at Bangkok Fringe Festival 2011, part of Asia-Europe Foundation dance camera project.

Abstract

Held at the Patravati Theatre, 'Note' was one of the Screendance pieces shown on 12 March 2011. 'Note' is one result of an ongoing cross arts collaboration between dancer/choreographer Cathy Seago, Senior Lecturer at Winchester University and founder of dance company Evolving Motion, myself and the Europa String Choir: Cathy Stevens and Udo Dzierzanowski. The aim of ‘Note’ is to explore the relationship between live musicians and recorded dance film, to challenge the role of dancer and musician. The output is a ten minute screen-dance triptych, with soundtrack composed live. Sykes and Seago devised a site specific vocabulary after receiving the first ArtLab residency at the Kube Gallery . Shot at night, Seago is silhouetted in an empty art gallery. Behind her are a series of horizontal lines. Conceptually, Cathy becomes a note on a page, in a sequence of bars that form visual cues for the composers.