JANE MCKERNAN
Mass Mouvement
Mass Mouvement
Performers: Angela Goh, Leeke Griffin, Carlee Mellow and Lizzie Thomson
Music: Toby Martin
Voice: Elizabeth Ryan
Costumes: Jen Kevin
Mass Movement is a work within a larger research process around the concept of unison. It has an emphasis on ‘liveness’, and the live transferal of choreographic information. It works with the notion of a ‘group body’, but still allows a sense of agency for the individual performers. It looks at choreography as a mode of empathy and sharing, as well as one of repetition and restraint. It takes as its reference points – movement choirs; mass gymnastic displays; physical culture and how the body was deeply linked to philosophies of nationalism and socialism in the early to mid twentieth century. It seeks to destabilise the uniformity of such movements, but works towards a sense of agreement between the four dancers, a determined unison.
JANE McKERNAN is a choreographer and performer. She has been a member of the collaborative trio The Fondue Set (with Emma Saunders and Elizabeth Ryan) for the last 14 years, and has been making her own work since 2009. Mass Movement follows her solo, Opening and Closing Ceremony, which looked at individual belonging within family, community and nation; and how these belongings shape the individual body.
Dancehouse, Melbourne - July 2014 - all rights reserved
Documentation by Cobie Orger.