More Maria Coleman Freeplay

Well there is something badly wrong with this posting. I tried uploading footage I took at Maria's performance, but it wouldn't load. As I have already said, I thought it was beautiful, so I will try again another day when I have a few minutes. Meantime life is hectic with the CREATE project I am doing in the Doclands with Clodagh Mooney from IADT.

Collaboration is nothing like as easy as it sounds.

Freeplay - BRS by Maria Coleman

Body Response System @ Project Brand New from Maria Coleman on Vimeo.

I got to go to this yesterday - a more recent version now called Freeplay, in the Crypt of Christchurch  and I was blown away by the experience. The combination of analog dance and sax with electronic gadgetry was delightful.
Apparently the backprojected visuals (not seen in this earlier version) use ISADORA which I learnt a tiny bit about in second year.

Maria is doing her PhD currently, but when she is past that, Autumn 2011, we hope to meet up and exchange ideas.

She said she had seen my Balance piece on YouTube and liked it; and her cameraman said he remembered seeing the Wrinkley's Playhouse at NCAD and thought it was strong.
Oh I do love 'strokes' like those.

Plato's Cave animation from Youtube

I think I may have posted this before,(see October 2008) but it's worth looking at again.




It is the last sentence or two that gives me food for thought.
Beginning at timerrame 7:14 minutes Plato Says:

It is the task of the enlightened, not only to ascend to learning and to see the good, but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honours, whether they are worth having or not, And this thing is due, even with the prospect of death. They should give of their help to one another, wherever each class is able to help the community.

 What might this be saying to me about going back into the cave, having spent my years in the glorious sunlight of art-college?