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Since the mid-seventies, Rosemary Butcher has been the UK's most consistently radical and innovative choreographer, developing her own movement language and choreographic form. Much of her inspiration is allied with the concepts and ideas in contemporary visual art. Over the last twenty years her work has been presented in over forty countries and she is recognised internationally as one of the UK's leading choreographers. Still-Slow-Divided, a new Rosemary Butcher quartet, individual dancers occupy separate light defined spaces with movement juxtaposed between one space and another, with the illuminated environment and a curtain emphasising the collision of physical energy around the proximity of the light installation. Fractured Landscapes, Fragmented Narratives is a duet exploring the transformation of the shape and identity of the body from actual to projected space, with the structure of the choreography exploring dependency and independence through weight and balance. Presented as an installation performance using new technology, emotional tension emerges from the physical complexity of the ensuing images. With a camera directed on the dancers within the performance, individual movements are frozen and emphasised, the image on the screen displacing and refocusing their bodies, resulting in the integration of the performance and the projection as a collage of sounds and images.