Temporary Store

by Colette Sadler

Temporary Store searches for the choreographic interface between virtual and physical reality.

In a futuristic place of transit that could be anywhere between a pop-up store and a museum, post-human bodies act as vessels for an infinite loop of movement that seems familiar and alien at the same time. The bodies frequently speed up and slow down, robotically replaying life’s ‘best bits’ back and forth through the space.

There is nothing to buy in the Temporary Store (the trick is in the name) but there is a coin, ´the Obol’ - once laid on ancient Greek tongues to pay the ferryman on the river Styx. We once dreamt of finding the perfect lover, but now why embrace Eros when you can trump Thanatos?

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REVIEWS

“Colette Sadler’s choreography has often explored liminal states, points where humanity shape-shifts (as do our perceptions of it). Her vision in Temporary Store is fascinating, futuristic: a way of over-riding death by becoming a digitised, virtual being with total recall.” 4 stars, Mary Brennan, The Herald

“Leah Marojevic and Samir Kennedy, with whom Sadler shares the stage – sometimes live, sometimes on screen – act within a set, imaginary network of lines. As if in a test run of some animation program, the two dancers expertly try out the crude simulation of human movements, often by rotation: organically flowing modern dance arms, for example, are translated into mechanical stuttering in the most minimal of circles. The dancers’ actions always lead into emptiness. Every attempt on the part of the audience to establish meaning slips away from the ghostly, encapsulated bodies with the strongly focusing gaze. Is the fourth wall of the theatre a matte computer screen?” Christine Matschke, Berliner Zeitung

CREDITS

Choreography: Colette Sadler
Performers / Creative Artists: Samir Kennedy, Leah Marojevic, Colette Sadler
Performance Installation & Video Design: Mikko Gaestel
Light Design: Veli-Ville Sivén
Costume: Rike Zoellner
Set construction: Mathis Burandt / neue tische
Music: Elaine Radigue: Trilogie de la Mort
Artistic Assistance: Maxwell McCarthy
Producers: Feral

Funded by Creative Scotland and Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin. Developed in Co-production with Sophiensaele Berlin (Germany), Bora Bora Aarhus (Denmark) Studio space provided in-kind by The Work Room (Glasgow).

TOUR DATES

13 - 17th February 2019, Sophiensæle Berlin
9th October 2019, Dance International Festival Glasgow at Tramway