Rehearsal 7 Pulse

Dancers: Sarah Alexander, Vicci Viles and Alice Moran

In this rehearsal the exploration point was a low rigged parcan light which was pointed directly downwards creating a powerful funnel effect and a pool of white light on the floor. As you can see in the image above the light almost drowns the dancer in light. The space between the top of the dancer's head and the light was approximately 80cm and so great care had to be taken to ensure that the light did not set the dancers' hair on fire.

The resulting material used the tone and structure of the light as the starting point - the dancers follow the spatial features of the beam and take turns to bravely step into the intensely bright centre spot. Once the movement material had been generated the intensity of the light was adjusted in response. At the beginning a pulsing effect is added which serves to add an increased tension to the circling walks. The music (composed by Soviet France) and sound effects were added after the rehearsal.