Shapes of Sleep

 

 

 

 

 

Shapes of Sleep

 

For eight hours five

 

 

 

 

Shapes of Sleep

 

For 8 hours 5 performers attempt to physically recreate the movements made during sleep. They do this by following recorded instructions played from speakers embedded into their mattresses. Through sheer exhaustion the performers 

sometimes also fall asleep, blurring the boundaries between fiction and and the so called 'real'–choreographed and everyday slumber.

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Yowza Yowza Yowza

A gruelling 24-hour performance that encaptulates the bizarre and cruel dance marathon craze of the 1930s Great Depression. Trapped in a ring of vaudevillian footlights the two dancers Carly and Jackson recreate historic images  of the dance marathons. Over the 24 hours the performers' exhaustion also starts to reflect the exhaustion of those depicted in the historic photographs.