The Site - Rosemary Butcher - 1983

One of Butcher's most original, complex and profound works, It was inspired by a trip to an Iron Age fort on the Castle Drogo estate in Devon. It was also her second collaboration with German visual artist Heinz Deiter Pietish. Working within the area defined by the pressed Papier Maché "U" shaped floor installation (he was to use Peat in a similar form in a revival at the Retrospective some thirteen years later.) with tubes of white light brightening and dimming, the dancers moved, placed themselves compositionally through the most pared down of movement. The work itself was developed in the studio using the terminology of archaeological digs as instructions to improvisation with the dancers, Malcolm Clark's bleak electronic sound, responding to the concept and the movement, contributed a profound sense of time and space to the work.

Visual Artist: Heinz Deiter Pietsch
Composer: Malcolm Clarke
Dancers; Gaby Agis, Dennis Greenwood, Sue MacLennan

Selected performances:
RIverside Studios, London, UK
Atlantis Gallery, London, UK

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