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BALL MEASURES #2 - Solo for film

BALL MEASURES is both a choreographic and performative practice that resist and reforms previous definitions of dance and choreography through the encountering of an inanimate object. Existing in different iterations, the body of work positions the ping-pong ball as a movement collaborator to engender ways of viewing the dancing body as a construct of choreography.

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The intangible moments and transformations that arise and occur through the body’s existence with the other(s) is made more visible when we sense, listen, give attention and activate the body. The inanimate is open to a range of movement interventions and activation, that serves as a tool to locate physical knowledge that is abstracted or resides historically in our body. Through the activation and organisation of this knowledge, it reveals facets of choreographic possibilities that were previously not evident. 

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With each iteration, alternate sites of knowledge production surface to expand the relationship between the inanimate and the dancing body. Departing from conventional dance making, the work positions processual research as a creation methodology. The accumulation of this information enables us to re-frame, re-inform and re-educate the way we make, view and engage ‘dance’ and ‘choreography’.

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Changes with time and state: activating different modes of movement exploration by removing the narrative and revisiting the impulse to move, one that changes with time and state. One can be abstract/esoteric/obfuscated or one can be pedestrian, here/now, real, or flow between the two.

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Presented at

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Esplanade Theatres on the Bay

da:ns Festival 2020

Open Call (Film)

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Direction and performer: Dapheny Chen

Sound design: Dapheny Chen

Film maker: Jootz See

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