RECOVERY By: Simon Ellis
Recovery is a practice-as-research performance project about perseverance, loss and proximity. It considers the ways in which dancer-performers sustain and wear performance material in time.
Recovery- S. Ellis
Summary:
Recovery is a practice-as-research performance project about perseverance, loss and proximity. It considers the ways in which dancer-performers sustain and wear performance material in time.
Recovery- S. Ellis
Research aims:
- Reveal and frame sustained movement practices that examine the nuances of physical and psychological states
Recovery- S. Ellis
Research Aims:
2. Develop strategies that reveal and question the conditions of production of the work, and build these into the form-content of the performance outcome.
2. Develop strategies that reveal and question the conditions of production of the work, and build these into the form-content of the performance outcome.
Recovery- S. Ellis
Research Aims:
3. To question the ways in which performed – and learned – materials are archived within and outside of the body.
3. To question the ways in which performed – and learned – materials are archived within and outside of the body.
Recovery- S.Ellis
The artistic team sought to value the long-term (6–7 years) – and sporadic – research and development process for Recovery. For example, as creative opportunities for the project appeared (and often disappeared) we recognised that the inherent value of the work resided in the sensitive and remarkable corporeal understanding between and within the two performers. Increasingly, the materials of the work were framed by philosophical questions of perseverance and loss.
Recovery- S. Ellis
Related publications and presentations:
- Ellis, Simon. 2015. “Jealousy, Transmission and Recovery.” Performance Research 20 (6): 95–100.