Work in Progress - T1281392268The performance situates spatially between two audiences at opposite ends of the theater. Its temporal structure reflects the historical trajectory of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, a triple life of church/mosque/museum. We consider these not conflicting theologies, but contrasting movements encountered on different planes. Part 1: A dance in 13 rounds. Each round adds a triad of detailed movement. Through the course of the 39 movements, the performers diverge and reconverge, in accordance with hybrid mathematics, to a regular beat with irregular measures, periodically accompanied by recorded sounds and music. Research into the interiority and the polyphonic proliferation of imagery of Byzantine architecture and ritual guides this section. Part 2: Not performance, but instructions for performances. The community enters the work as instruction-givers, in response to the question, "How do you make going down that street one thousand times in a lifetime (or maybe not at all) last?" A micro-performance on a bare stage answers each recited instruction: a universe in restrained words and gestures, a journey of attention with no destination. Research into the exteriority, the textual call-and-response and the absence of representation of Islamic ritual and architecture guides this section. Part 3: A high-energy concert begins that is also a museum and an archive, populated with colliding futures and restless ghosts. A series of three-minute theatrical acts, monologues, and dialogues loop and repeat, weaving contrary time signatures, and overlapping meditations on lastness . The collaborative company decision to make this the final Goat Island piece in particular informs this section. | |
| 5 Sep 06 to 8 Sep 06 | Chelsea Theatre, Inner London :: V179 listing details L295297687 |
When Will The September Roses Bloom?/Last Night Was Only a Comedy - T1568071959The internationally acclaimed Goat Island are a Chicago-based collaborative performance company. They perform a work questioning our place in a damaged world and our potential for repairing it. Designed to be performed over two nights, each show is nonetheless a full experience by itself. | |
| 9 Jun 05 to 10 Jun 05 | Wickham Theatre, Bristol :: V188 listing details L0501758379 |
| 6 Jun 05 to 7 Jun 05 | Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff :: V827 listing details L173977542 |
| 20 May 05 to 21 May 05 | Lancaster Arts, Lancaster :: V522 listing details L086781423 |
| 16 May 05 to 17 May 05 | General, Nottingham :: V0758542743 listing details L0865697841 |
When Will The September Roses Bloom?/Last Night Was Only a Comedy - T1871091157The internationally acclaimed Goat Island are a Chicago-based collaborative performance company. They perform the UK premiere of a work questioning our place in a damaged world and our potential for repairing it. Designed to be performed over two nights, each show is nonetheless a full experience by itself. | |
| 6 Oct 04 to 7 Oct 04 | BAC (Battersea Arts Centre), Inner London :: V168 listing details L1580025252 |
Work-in-Progress - T1570893711The work mines a wealth of diverse sources for its dance/movement sequences, theatrical scenes and spoken texts, including The Wind (a silent film from 1928), the history of the teaching of the alphabet in America, the time/space patterns of the fibonacci sequence spiral, the poetry of Paul Celan, and household repair manuals and diagrams. The piece, scheduled for completion in 2004, will question our place in a damaged world and our aptitude at repairing it.Performer Simon Jons (introduction). | |
| 24 May 03 | Arnolfini, Bristol :: V863 listing details L249423545 |
