Stephan Koplowitz : TaskForce UK 2009 Perf Excerpt -Mayflower Landing and Steps (site specific)

Stephan Koplowitz: TaskForce UK June, 2009
"Liquid Landscapes" (a series of water related site-specific performances)
Inspired by the design and location of the Mayflower Landing and Steps in Plymouth UK, TaskForce collaborated with visual artist Helen Snell in a site-specific performance/installation for this iconic site. This performance features original music by Hugh Nankivell.
videography: Gorav Kalyan
video editor: Mitchell Rose
TaskForce is a site-art dance touring company, established in 2008, that works on a project-to-project basis. Fluid in its conception TaskForce is made up of selected artists and performers drawn from the cultural landscape of its host city or region. It is a process oriented performance laboratory where artists are asked to draw inspiration from the architecture, history, culture and ecology of multiple sites within a single geographic area all connected by a common theme.
Working within an intensive time frame (three weeks of rehearsal + one week of performances) under the direction of veteran site-artist Stephan Koplowitz, each artist is given a different creative "task" to be explored and performed at the various sites. The content of each performance is made up of a combination of site-specific choreography, site-adaptive material and improvisational scores inspired by each performance site.
For more information: http://koplowitzprojects.com/

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• contemporary dance
• site-specific
• site-specific dance
• installation art
• Mayflower
• history
• English
• contemporary music
• modern dance
• choreography
• visual art
• public performance
• dancers
• Plymouth
• United Kingdom
• CalArts
• site-art
• Dartington
• Helen Snell
• Stephan Koplowitz