INVISIBLE DANCES…FROM AFAR: A SHOW THAT WILL NEVER BE SHOWN

BOCK AND VINCENZI

  

On the 20th March 2003, in a 'dark' theatre in London's West End, Bock & Vincenzi presented: invisible dances…from afar: a show that will never be shown.

In the empty auditorium sat just one person; the poet and theatre maker Fiona Templeton. As she watched, she recorded her experience of this extraordinary two-hour long performance, so that an audience might later hear it on the telephone. Individually the dancers explored different relationships between the external body, communication technologies and absence. Through personal earpieces they responded to different 'soundtracks' drawn from internal sounds of the body.

Later the vivid and haunting account of Fiona Templeton could be heard as a sound work for the telephone, by dialling the number advertised on fly posters designed by artist Duncan MacAskill. 

 

The publication of this work has texts by Fiona Templeton, James Brown, Rose English and Martin Hargreaves and photographs by Henrik Thorup Knudsen.

invisible dances… from afar was made with Frank Bock, James Brown, Rose English, Joanne Fong, Valentina Formenti, Tim Gebbels, Doran George, Lisa Haskel, Ian Hill, William J Hulley, Nanette Kincaid, Henrik Thorup Knudsen, Gill Lyons, Navraj Sidhu, Luke Stoneham, Chris Tandy, Koen Van Geene, Simon Vincenzi and Chahine Yavroyan.

Commissioned by Media Art Projects and in association with Dance 4 for Nottdance. 

invisible dances…from afar was presented at NottDance International Dance Festival May 2003, Dance Umbrella, London October / November 2004 and SpringDance, Utrecht April 2005.