Looking Back (2003)
Looking Back is a media/performance work
incorporating dance and video created by video designer John
Crawford and choreographer Lisa Naugle, with music by Alan
Terricciano. A solo dancer on stage relates to a videodance
duet projected on a screen behind her. This work explores
repetition, recurring memories and the notion of being "boxed
in", through a gradual development of echoed material
in the projected video, juxtaposed with the energies of the
solo dancer, reaching forward, breaking boundaries.
In Looking Back, the live solo dancer is onstage
for about six minutes out of the total eight minutes. When
she is offstage, the videodance imagery is the focus of attention.
The choreography for the videodance duet is based on memories
stimulated by photographs given to the dancers during rehearsals,
and choreography for the live and videotaped dancers was
developed through an improvisational process.
We envision this work as a combination of living memory
(embodied by the onstage performer) and recalled memory (projected
on the video screen). Dancer and videodance, integrated in
performance, trace and construct memory in space and in time.
View stills from Looking Back in the Animation
Gallery.
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