Eight dancers, four from Sydney, and four from London interpret Sonia’s dance Motif created when she was a student at Laban in 1987. Appropriating an idea based on French artist Sophie Calle ‘s body of work Take care of yourself. Sonia requested the dancers to re-interpret, copy, ignore or embellish her dance Motif thereby creating a new embodied dialogue of movement. Eight solo dances were filmed and projected large scale onto the gallery walls.
The Dancers:
Anca Frankenhaeuser, former London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Australian Dance Artists
Patrick Harding-Irmer, former London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Australian Dance Artists
Susan Barling, former Sydney Dance Company, Australian Dance Artists
Ross Philip, former Sydney Dance Company, Australian Dance Artists
Jennifer Jackson, former soloist the Royal Ballet Company, Dancing the Invisible, UK
Susie Crow, former soloist Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet Company, Ballet in Small Spaces, UK
Ann Dickie, former Ballet Rambert, From Here to Maturity, UK
Nicholas Minns, former Les Grands Ballets de Canadiens, writingaboutdance.com UK