Willi Dorner
Bodies in Urban Spaces
Think you know your city? Think again...
Bodies in Urban Spaces - a trail of human geometry across Brighton's streetscape - puts a whole new perspective on the built environment.
You meet at a secret location and join the crowd. Led across Brighton's hidden spaces by 20 'movement artists' - dancers, climbers, athletes - your street-eye view is reframed and refreshed. In nooks and crannies, doorways and alcoves bodies form and re-form into fleeting architectural interventions. As the performers disengage, move on and reassemble - in, on, around and under the urban landscape - the route and the city's architecture reveal themselves anew.
Conceived and created by Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner, this living chain of physical sculptures creates a unique dialogue with our neighbourhoods, leaving no trace but an eyewitness imprint on our collective memory.
'A wonder of organisation and stamina ... a model of public art: free, fun and transformative.'
Philadelphia Inquirer
In association with South East Dance
Presented as part of our involvement in the ZEPA project (European Zone of Artistic Project - formerly PECA). Zepa is a network of 9 British and French arts and cultural organisations dedicated to developing and creating street arts within the large area it covers - North of France and South of England - and it is supported by the European Union as part of the INTERREG IV A France (Channel) - England programme. Bodies in Urban Spaces has also been programmed by Atelier 231, one of ZEPA's French partners, as part of Viva Cité 2009
More information about the ZEPA network's initiatives and projects www.zepa9.eu
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