Bark and a Meow
Bark and a Meow
Structured Unknown
Double Bill: 1. Bark and a Meow and 2. Structured Unknown – Contact Dance Company
Double Bill:
1. Bark and a Meow
– Contact Dance Company
Inspired by the 1989 movie “When Harry met Sally”, “A Bark and a Meow” draws from scenes with text interpreted by the dancers themselves. The text leads the development of the movement exploring the abstract relationship of two strangers over a period of six years, becoming friends, then lovers. A light and humorous work looking at the language of the body as
vocabulary.
• 15-30 min
• Touring Company: 4
• English
• Minimum performance area: 8m x 10m
2. Structured Unknown
– Contact Dance Company
With visuals in mind Merce Cunningham’s greatest influence on his work was movement by chance, creating radical innovations: the controversial relationship between dance and sound which occur at the same time and in the same space and are created independently one from the other. There is an extensive use of chance procedures abandoning not only musical forms, but narrative and other conventional elements of dance composition such as cause and effect, climax and anticlimax. This piece explores undefined situations. Moments that happen through chance. I find this energy extremely exciting. The work evolved with installation design in mind, a shadow’s journey through freedom and restraint.
• 15-30 min
• Touring Company: 6
• English
• Minimum performance area: 8m x 10m
Project Website: www.contactdancecompany.com
Contact: francescatranter@gmail.com