clare dyson
dance
DANCE WORKS
Clare has created over 20 major dance works in theatres, for site specific and galleries. Below are a select number of recent performance works.ALONE TOGETHER
This immersive dance and sound installation looks at how we connect and disconnect in wider society. It works between the cracks of dance, lighting design, sound and audience experience, focusing on themes of aloneness and loneliness. The performance places the audience into moments of 'aloneness' to physically experience the work, questioning how we connect with each other and whether being alone is the same and being lonely.THE VOYEUR
Inside a large box onstage are two dancers. The box is littered with peepholes – enough for each audience member to see through. Some are large enough to share, but most are for individual watching. Some have steps, some seats and many are at head height. Some of these ‘peep holes’ also have headphones, and some binoculars.The audience is invited onstage to watch this performance, but how they watch is central to the work. Do they want to develop an intimate relationship with the performer? Do they want to hear the intimacies that are revealed on the headphones? Or do they want more visual information – to use the binoculars to see extremely close, things that are usually seen from a distance?
BEING THERE
this work looks at ideas of intimacy and desire, betrayal and responsibility.the work is 60 minutes in duration and had a short story commissioned for the work about a woman working in a foreign country and her actions concerning love, relationships and infidelity.
the final work was was presented in a massive open theatre, with a white square tarquet and 100 black chairs arranged in an oval. the two performers worked inside and behind the chairs forcing the audience to change their point of view of the work. This, coupled with the text and the strong visual imagery, asked questions of the audience of what it means to watch a performer so intimately and how does distance change your perspective...
ABSENCE(S)
This work was externally situated in an undisclosed venue to confront exterior and interior anxieties; choreographer and installation artist clare dyson's latest production powerfully explores issues of disappearances and abduction. audience were transported to forgotten sites to witness the first stage of this powerful performance.the work immersed the audience in the concept: at first they were separated from whomever they came with, then they were asked to take off their shoes and surrender their personal belongings. then they moved into small rooms where the walls were made of plastic - they could hear and vaguely see others but were the others performers, ghosts or their fellow audience members?
MEDELEVEN
Inside a large box onstage are two dancers. The box is littered with peepholes – enough for each audience member to see through. Some are large enough to share, but most are for individual watching. Some have steps, some seats and many are at head height. Some of these ‘peep holes’ also have headphones, and some binoculars.The audience is invited onstage to watch this performance, but how they watch is central to the work. Do they want to develop an intimate relationship with the performer? Do they want to hear the intimacies that are revealed on the headphones? Or do they want more visual information – to use the binoculars to see extremely close, things that are usually seen from a distance?
DROWNING
This work was externally situated in an undisclosed venue to confront exterior and interior anxieties; choreographer and installation artist clare dyson's latest production powerfully explores issues of disappearances and abduction. audience were transported to forgotten sites to witness the first stage of this powerful performance.the work immersed the audience in the concept: at first they were separated from whomever they came with, then they were asked to take off their shoes and surrender their personal belongings. then they moved into small rooms where the walls were made of plastic - they could hear and vaguely see others but were the others performers, ghosts or their fellow audience members?