SARAH AIKEN
Three Short Dances
Three Short Dances
Performer: Sarah Aiken
Sound design and Performance: Daniel Arnott
Dramaturgy: Rebecca Jensen
Lighting and Set Design: Matthew Adey
Three Short Dances deals with representation, exploring metaphor at its most obvious, and often at its most absurd. Her piece will be a development of this ongoing research, navigating the body and objects in relation to the myriad of actual and socially constructed meanings that exist. The Body interacts with objects, costume and abstract and representational movement. By considering how we value and revalue the inanimate, the work brings attention to how we read the animate body.
SARAH AIKEN is a Melbourne based dancer, choreographer and teacher. Sarah pursues an ongoing interest in how and what we value, creating dichotomies and clashes from wide-ranging references, aiming to create poignancy through absurdity. With Rebecca Jensen, Sarah created OVERWORLD (Next Wave Festival 2014) and is a co-founder of participatory, yogic disco, Deep Soulful Sweats. Other work includes; Set (Lucy Guerin Inc. Piece’s for Small Spaces, 2013, EDC Solo Festival of Dance 2014) Now Something Really Final (K77, Berlin 2012), Jurassic Arc (Dancehouse, Melbourne Fringe 2012) and a range of collaborative and interdisciplinary projects across music, live art, film, photography and visual arts.
Dancehouse, Melbourne - July 2014 - all rights reserved
Documentation by Cobie Orger.