Another Dance Company's Dance & Text workshop reveals the processes used to create Epithet.
See our video clip for extracts of the dance piece Epithet and the processes used to create it.
Another Dance Company creates...
choreography with an obession for space and an eye for intricate detail.
performances with a fluid movement style that focus upon connections between the space, timing and the body.
Professional Dance Piece: Epithet
Another Dance Company’s captivating dance piece Epithet was created from two very different stories; To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.
The dance does not narrate the stories. Instead the movement conveys the power of fiction and the structure of a text.
The rhythm of movement is determined by the rhythm of characters’ speech and narration. The emotional journey of central characters dictates the intensity of sections of movement. The reader’s involvement, compassion and despair at the lives of fictional characters are displayed through shifts in direction and movement style.
The choreography explores how it feels to be the reader of fiction, and uses an analysis of the language and structure from particular texts to determine the movement.
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Epithet explores how and why so many of us choose to escape between the pages of a novel and immerse ourselves in a fictional world. How does an author draw us into their imagined world and why do we choose to become so involved in the lives of these fictional characters?
The dancers embody the position of the reader as voyeur, judge and psychoanalyst of the situations in specific extracts from the two texts.
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The piece is performed by three professional dancers and lasts for 30 minutes.
Another Dance Company performed Epithet at The Riley Theatre, Leeds; The Crucible Studio, Sheffield; Ferens Live Art Space, Hull; West Park, Sheffield, as well in secondary schools across Yorkshire June- December 2007.
