Bock & Vincenzi

invisible dancesÖ
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

invisible dances...  is the title for a three year research period that Bock & Vincenzi started developing in 1999. It was formed from a desire to work on ideas outside the structure of theatrical presentation

invisible dances...  began as an exploration of our perception of the idea of Nothingness. Of what stories or myths are now contained in the darkness to ward off our fear of Nothingness. To explore the interior landscape and private worlds contained within the body and how these are ëexpressedí. During the last ten 'blocks' of research Bock & Vincenzi have worked with over thirty collaborators on a developing continuum of ideas and experiments. The work has taken different forms depending on the ideas being explored - short dances, installation sketches, video documentation, interventions etc. and throughout this time the findings been presented in a series of work-in-progress showings.

invisible dances... began by exploring musical text (created by Luke Stoneham) that was audible to only the dancers via headphones. Those watching were witness to the effect of these tapes through the performers physical response- whilst denied hearing the source. The physical language being developed from this ërealí situation is one that allows for ëunpresentedí or interior movement.

invisible dancesÖ has also explored the stealing and replication of journeys made by unknown people through public spaces with covert digital video. It has started to retranslate the private movement vocabulary of everyday journeying through the expanse of the city. It has started to explore the ëreal-timeí of the bodyís movement while it thinks that no one is watching it.

invisible dancesÖ has worked with blind performers to explore the perception of unsighted space.

invisible dancesÖ has illuminated darkened spaces with their own projected InfraRed image.

invisible dancesÖ a show by Bock & Vincenzi will be a large scale presentation from this research in the summer if 2003

"If we really live a poetic image we will aggravate the boundary
 between the inside and the out side."
Gaston Bachelard

"Where do I fit into this?....my body is forgotten"
Theo Cowley (block 9)
 
 

Bock & Vincenzi's proposal to MAP is to collaborate on a performance of 'invisible dancesÖ' that no one would see.

invisible dancesÖa public presentation

The work would include a poster campaign throughout London to advertise a production of 'invisible dancesÖ'. This would hopefully be in association with a London venue. The poster would include their logo, images from the 'production' and a telephone number for people to ring for enquires.

On phoning the telephone number you would hear two 'texts'. The first would be a (live?) audio translation of a production that is taking place. This production includes six performers and a sound designer and would, in fact have already taken place over eight hours one night in an empty theatre. The intimate voice would give a description of the event taking place; a description of what is happening physically as well as the time it is occurring within it's eight hour duration. This voice would also give 'poetic' interludes. These would refer to the distance between the 'event' taking place and its solo audience member listening to it. It would describe the possible different spaces that the person is listening from. It would refer to the reality of describing something that no one else can see and the political/emotional relationship that this creates.

The second 'text' during the call would be the amplified internal body sounds of people dancing during the eight hours. For each solo dance an electronic stethoscope would be placed on a different part of the body to amplify the internal sounds of the body as it dances. The listening audience would hear these dances as part of the production they can not see. These internal body dances would be intimate and disturbing.
 
 
 

This proposal has been developed from many of the ideas already explored during the research of invisible dancesÖ especially our collaborations with performers who are blind. Although not fully formed it would be an exploration of our expectations of display and media communication. It would use technology as a way to deny access to information, while asking the question where is the real event really taking place?