Sunday 8 August 2010

re-forming space

Filmed at LSE New Academic Building on Saturday 13th February.

Over the course of a weekend, LSE New Academic Building hosted a weekend of lectures for the 'Space for Thought' festival, and on the Saturday, the atrium was used as a performance space in a collaboration which brought together musicians, dancers and lecture attendees and film makers.

A 45 minute piece of music composed for the occasion by Soosan Lolavar was played four times between ten o'clock and four o'clock. Responding to the music and the immediate environment of the building, four dancers -- Rosa van Hensbergen, Peter Mills, Benjamin Pohlig and Josie Waterson -- performed a combination of set pieces and improvisation. Each forty five minute session was unique.

Jim Pockson and Katherine Waters filmed the event and edited the footage into a six minute film. You can see the film on the LSE website here.