EVENT

She's Lost Control

Invite

28-01-2010

07-05-2010

United Kingdom,

Posted by: rita-marcalo

Category: Show/Performance

Field: Performing arts

instantdissidence presents She’s Lost Control

Thursday, 28th January Theatre in the Mill, Bradford @ 7.30pm Box office: 01274 233200
Friday, 29th January Theatre in the Mill, Bradford @ 7.30pm Box office: 01274 233200
Tuesday 16th March Sheffield University, Sheffield @ 5.30pm pm Box office: 07891678585
Friday 30th April Yorkshire Dance, Leeds @ 7.30 Box office: 0113 243 8765
Friday 7th May York St John University, York @ 7.30 Box office: 07891678585

An immersive dance installation looking at epilepsy, and the control behaviours involved in the avoidance of an epileptic seizure.

She’s Lost Control (2010) is the second in a trilogy of works exploring conceptual and physical interfaces between dance, epilepsy and drug research. It concerns itself with the healthy body, the body which is not in an epileptic state, and behaviours of avoidance or control which may keep the body in that state. It addresses both Marcalo’s experience as an epilepsy sufferer and that of other well known sufferers such as Joy Division’s singer Ian Curtis.

“... well-conceived, witty and thought-provoking... work that is surprising, challenging, transgressive and exciting...”
Allan Sutherland, The Guardian

Created by award-winning choreographer Rita Marcalo, in collaboration with filmmaker Lucy Barker, scenographers Matt Sykes-Hooban and James Harrison, poet Ryan Ormonde and performer Thom Shaw, She’s Lost Control is an immersive dance installation. The audience takes an active role in choosing how to experience the work, by navigating a labyrinth of enclosures. Each enclosure presents the audience with a task, an interactive poem, a film projection, a duet. Towards the end the immersive structure opens itself up to reveal the network of physical links between its elements.

“If we believe in Marcalo's work as a piece of successful and provocative art, she will have succeeded in reversing (...) some of the oldest understandings of art and performance... her performance would rank alongside the work of, say, menstruation artists and Tracey Emin's 2000 Turner Prize winning bed sheets”.
Wheelchair Dancer Blog

The first in this trilogy of works (Involuntary Dances, 2009) explored the exact opposite (the epileptic body, the body in a state of illness, and all the behaviours that may bring that state on), and was one of the most talked about live art works of 2009. Footage of Involuntary Dances integrates She’s Lost Control, and the last in the trilogy (Sem Corpo, 2011), will integrate footage from both preceding works, and will explore anti-convulsants, and questions around drug research process.

The performance is suitable for those aged 16+.
The work contains footage of epileptic seizures and nudity.

Interviews and photo calls are available upon request.
Media Enquiries: Ashlie Cherry
Email: ashlie.cherry@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 07891678585

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