ATLANTA EKE
Body of Work
Body of Work
Performance: Atlanta Eke
Video: Ready Steady Studio
Sound Composition: Daniel Jenatsch Light Design: Ben Shaw
Body of Work questions its right to contemporaneity by producing a new relationship between performance and the function of its video documentation. Through analyzing the ‘present’ as a loop, constituted by the rewriting of the past and strategies aiming at success in the future, the performance makes no separation between the dancers body and video technology. Body of Work operates as a hybrid, a synthesis of biological organism and technical machine, a cyborg blurring the lines between who choreographs and who is choreographed.
ATLANTA EKE is an Australian dancer and choreographer. Since 2006, Eke has presented her experimental work throughout Australia and Europe in a variety of formats. She has worked with artists such as Xavier Le Roy, Ros Warby, Lucy Guerin, and Deborah Hay among others. In 2012, the artist was the 2012 Dancehouse Research Housemate resident with Swedish artist Emma Kim Hagdalh and was an Australia Council for the Arts 2012 ArtStart Grant recipient. Atlanta Eke has recently been nominated for a Green Room Award for her performance in her work MONSTER BODY.
Dancehouse, Melbourne - July 2014 - all rights reserved
Documentation by Cobie Orger.