Budleigh’s beach will be the setting for a spectacular event staged by internationally-renowned dancer Charlie Morrissey on 29 April.
Here Now is a site-specific night-time performance event which takes place on the beach under the cliffs west of Steamer Steps at 8.30 pm.
The piece, created by Charlie Morrissey, is a mix between live performance and projection onto the cliffs, and looks at the relationship between humans and their environment – at our place in the landscape. It is part of Deep Time - a trilogy of events taking place along the Jurassic Coast in 2008-09.
“The performance is something that anyone can take part in – the more, the merrier!” says Julie Penfold, Director of PVA MediaLab which has commissioned the event as part of the Jurassic Coast Arts Programme.
“All you need to do to be a part of the performance is to turn up at 5.00 pm on the day. You, along with lots of others, will be taught a very simple sequence of movements on the beach and then, as darkness falls everyone will perform the piece to music with the sea in the background. Once the live performance is finished, there will be a film projected onto the cliffs.
The piece will be very simple and fun to do – you don’t need to have any performance experience – just come along and take part.”
Charlie Morrissey is a director, performer, teacher/workshop leader and researcher. He trained in dance and choreography at Dartington College of Arts and has been working in the UK and many other countries around the world for nearly 20 years. He creates large and small-scale site-specific and theatre and gallery based performance work in diverse contexts.
If you’d like to take part, please email
admin@pva.org.uk For further information please see:
http://www.jurassiccoast.com/ and
www.pva.org.uk/UV08.htmPhoto credit: PVA MediaLab
