Starting Points

• • Collaborations – sounds and rhythmic patterns created by Marc Gowan.  Motifs were created from the sounds, qualities and rhythms e.g. music during woman in skirts section was created from listening to the counts created in a lyrical style. 
• • Music - A dance work that plays with and against the music, sometimes matching the rhythms perfectly, sometimes deliberately pulling against them. Ie Direct Correlation and Dissociation. 
• • Lighting design- Peter Mumford’s 10 successive lighting washes  - play a central role taking the place of the more traditional cyclorama (backcloth) and clearly influencing the visual impact of the dance.  
• Formations and different facings.
• Dance for dance sake
• Experimental movement and music
• Technique and dance for dance sake