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TitleTacet: Rhythmic composition (after Roy De Maistre’s rhythmic composition in Yellow Green Minor (1919) (2016)Date2016SubjectDanceChoreographyLizzie ThomsonGalleryDescription
Lizzie Thomson uses dance as a means of reflecting on The Future of Disappearance, curated by André Lepecki for the 20th Biennale of Sydney. She looks to the near future, following Mette Edvardsen’s Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, a project for which she memorised The Waves by Virginia Woolf (1931). Her presentation negotiates an encounter, or a harmonious battle, between the rhythmic and poetic text of The Waves and her own dancing. While in earlier projects she has addressed the dance/gallery condition by exhibiting her dancing body, here she aims to see if it is possible to simply work in the gallery without making any demands on the public to watch for a sustained amount of time. The title is a tangent; a suggestion of a lateral space and time; a reminder that you can walk towards a dance performance in the gallery and then wander off...
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