2010
Performance
People:
Teresa DillonTim Redfern (software)
Performers at 7a*11d show:
Roy Mitchell
Andrew J. Paterson
Ken Fraser
Joe Borowiec
Links:
performanceart.caWHEN AND WHERE?
Saturday, Oct 30, 2010, 8:00 pm
XPACE Cultural Centre, 58 Ossington Avenue, Toronto
ABOUT
Small Acts of Great Significance is a live performance composed of three, ten minute sequences. The choreography for each sequence and the sound used are created by working with different groups of men in response to conversations with them about what they consider as 'small acts of significance'. As each sequence is delivered, aspects of the movement are captured live on camera and replayed as projections within the space. As the sequences evolve the movements captured begin to trail and feedback on each other, creating a slowly moving background of images which continue to feedback on each other, till they disappear.
Each time the piece is performed with different groups of men, it takes on it's own form and rhythms.
Daniel Baird (7a*11d festival blogger/journalist) comments on the piece:
"Irish artist Teresa Dillon’s piece was improvisatory, in the moment, and trace-like. Having invited men over fifty to collaborate with her on a work that combined visuals and music, Dillon and her small entourage had created the performance earlier that morning. Lights dimmed, patterns pulsed on the screen on the back wall. Andrew Paterson appeared with an electric guitar and began playing a low, repetitive refrain, the other men following with microphones singing ditties reaffirming their desires and life. Dillon meanwhile literally hissed into the microphone, her voice seeming to come from a megaphone in some old revolution. In the end, Dillon’s piece had a slow, beautiful violence to it that got under one’s skin and is ultimately difficult to describe".
Partners:
XPACE Cultural CentreFunders:
7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, 2011
