“This is an invitation, a chance for folks to meet. Open your front door, step out – and dance. We work with a neighbourhood to create a series of individual, autobiographical dances, culminating in a elegiac roadside knees up – a moving picture of a street’s intimate life.” (Lone Twin, date unknown)
Street Dance is a community based piece which takes the lives/experiences/thoughts etc. from people who live there and turns them into a unique dance site specific piece of art.
“…Street Dance (2009) can be more straightforwardly read, as Williams and Lavery suggest, as ‘new, more participatory forms of community-based art’ (2011, 16) In these, Lone Twin works with communities on performance that construct and celebrate dances or speeches that are personal to the lives of each individual, and are performed both in the context of that community and at institutions such as Sadler’s Wells.” (Tomlin, 2015, 116)
Lone Twin sum up their piece within this video which was taken from MINTO:LIVE 2011 Lone Twin’s Street Dance: https://vimeo.com/18849232
‘Public engagement, public projects with volunteers from the community that happen in a public space’ (Lone Twin, 2011)
This particular summary of the piece Street Dance, links nicely to our piece We Need You, and Your Footprints as although we aren’t doing our piece through the medium of dance, we still want to take a piece of a person, their signature to be specific which will be signed alongside a soldier’s name to juxtapose the past and the present people entering The Drill Hall.
“When centre stage is at the front door.” (Johnston, 2011)
This quote is taken from the title for an article by the Sydney Morning Herald about Street Dance. I particularly liked this short description of the piece as it was taking a everyday setting (the streets) and turning it into a hypothetical stage. Which was making the performance easily accessible to every member of the community.
Bibliography
Lone Twin (date unknown) Street Dance. [online] Lone Twin. Available from: http://www.lonetwin.com/nodes/view/54 [Accessed 9 March 2015].
Lone Twin (2011) MINTO:LIVE 2011 Lone Twin’s Street Dance. [online video] Available from: https://vimeo.com/18849232 [Accessed 9 March 2015].
Tomlin, L. (2015) British Theatre Companies: 1995-2014: Mind the Gap, Kneehigh Theatre, Suspect Culture, Stan’s Cafe, Blast Theory, Punchdrunk. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
Johnston, M. (2011) When centre stage is at the front door. The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 January, 3. Available from: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/dance/when-centre-stage-is-at-the-front-door-20110113-19pww.html [Accessed 9 March 2015].