Axiom Tangent will be one of 3 pieces forming a triple bill called Inspired, which FFIN DANCE will be touring from March 2013
- Choreography: Gary Lambert
- Music: Oli Newman
- Lighting: Karsten Tinapp
My focus and interest is working with visually abstract movement, through which the body becomes an expressive and aesthetic landscape. An approach that initiates from an interest in the articulation, manipulation, and syncretic use of various movement influences into a personal movement aesthetic.
Axiom Tangent was initially commissioned in 2010, the work was a response to Oli Newman’s score, which was inspired by number stations (number stations are cold war recordings, sequences of numbers, transmitted at long wave by most of the cold war countries secret services)
This lead me on a tangent to think about the cold war and what it represented, for me confrontation, resistance and proximity, this lead the way as a starting point, to generate movement ideas based around confrontation, resistance and proximity, other inputs that informed the devising process, was, Sir Isaac Newton’s axiom 3rd law of motion. (“To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction”).
I didn’t want the outcome or representation of these ideas to be a literal or narrative interpretation within movement and so the process was to abstract away from these possibilities: with the intention of presenting the transformation of such dark subject material into something of abstracted beauty and in a sense, the opposite visually from the initial subject materials starting point.
I’m very much looking forward to getting back into the studio with the FFIN dancers in the new year, try and catch us on tour
Gary Lambert