Eden: Dance Reveiw

Eden
Dance Review
The performance that I viewed was unconventional, I have never experience such dance piece before. The audience enters into the performance space walking around various dancers that were displayed as sculptures wrapped in plastic sheet, “sculptural movement” the various combinations of swings and jump and matrix appeared animalistic. As if they were creatures moving in a forest. The atmosphere had a cold naturalistic environment as if nature was being brought into the studio space. The strong bold imagery of the dance allows you to experience the atmosphere of being outside in a forest. Due to the accompaniment of found sounds, birds singing, a forest likes instrumental. This set such a tranquil luring concentrated ambience.
The dancers solo improvisation all weaved in as one movement and flowed together as unit even though everyone had their blue print way of moving . I found it interesting that the audience followed them onto the streets performing around the university campus sites as I have never witness a live performance of site specific piece.
The pastel pink and dusty brown dresses accompanied with brown legging. Such warm tones of colour reflect the season that it was perfumed in, which was auto. It is somewhat amusing to see them put on brown thick 1960s fur coats and willies to dance in. facing the harsh bitterness of English weather which I find it bazaar to dance in such weather. It was interesting to witness a site specific piece being performed at night the clarity of movement was still evident. The choreographer was not restricted to the time of day that her performance was shown; she challenged the boundaries of dance conventions. The dancers travelled in a robotic way from site to site and as you trawled with them having a small proximity between audience and performer you felt more involved as the audience.
The second part of the dance was performed in a great location of Coventry in open space that had wonderful historical medieval building scatted or emerged amongst the modern building. The various objects situated in the space created a lovely effect, enhancing and enlarging the movement of the dancers as it was perfumed on a wider scale the jumps and leaps were extenuated. There was a stone ball lined up in curve which was incorporated in their dance piece and became a part of the performance which looked fun and enjoyable. The ray of colourful light on the pavement created a shadowed effect. It was well structured and frequently fluid I noticed whilst viewing the piece it section flowed into each other. From my first experience of viewing live site specific work it was enjoyable to watch as well as strange the dancers were energetic so they kept the audience engaged