Corpus Alimentation
Part Documentary. Part Science Fiction. Part Ritual / Created as part of 'They Gather'
Audience gather for an immersive experience of electronic sounds, contemporary vocals and evocative dance.
How to survive a falling lift, a mother’s story of her newborn’s urgency to feed, how to repot a plant and an account of the person who survived the greatest free fall in history all become metaphors for a state of emergency.
Vulnerabilities, scarcity and survival provide potent threads for being with the physiological needs that drive reactions to flock, to protect, to shelter, of fight or flight.
"The monologue about breastfeeding...delivered into a microphone suspended from the ceiling ...created a visceral response to the difficulties of the political topics being presented in the work…”, ‘Corpus Alimentation' Audience Member
2019 DEVELOPMENT & PRESENTATION
Co-creators, Directors and Choreographers: Bridget Fiske; Joseph Lau
Co-creators, Sound Artists, Composers and Performers: Stelios Manousakis; Stephanie Pan
Collaborating Performers: Charles Ball; Chloe Lanham; Kristian Santic; Sammie Williams
Producer: Bridget Fiske
Co-Producers: Stichting Modulus; Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance Brisbane; Bridget Fiske & Co with Joseph Lau (Jau Artist)
Presented: Supercell Festival Of Contemporary Dance (AUS)
Supported by: Queensland Government through Arts Queensland; Performing Arts Fund NL; Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance; MAD Dance House; Rio Rhythmics Latin Dance Academy; Drum Furniture
Thank-you: Ian Dearden; Robert Lachowicz; Kate Fiske
Photographers: Eamonn Sweeney - CreativeImageworx; Nadia Milford
Videographers: Lenka Flory; En Rui Foo
Video Edit: Roman Lubiy
Sound Mix and Master: Stelios Manousakis