Long Time At Sea

Long Time at Sea is an extended response to a piece of music, Sawdust and Diamonds by Joanna Newsom. "For some time I’d been curious to attempt a choreography with this music: it felt like something I needed to get out of my system. The work gathers some of the underpinnings that support my current creative interests: the importance of ‘listening’ in its many forms; the notion of resilience (psychological and environmental); and the generation of collective action, community and hope." Long Time at Sea presents a number of challenges to the performers - who are the very life of the work - asking them to tune in to the nuances of sound, investigate their own musicality, and develop both their individuality and their ability to work generously as part of a larger organism. 

Presented in June 2013 at Space 28, Melbourne