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Dwell: landscape in the figure

2022. screendance work (10 mins).

Dwell: landscape in the figure is a screendance work responding to the urgent issue of habitat loss. It focuses on three endangered ecological communities in the Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu Peninsula regions of South Australia - coastal, heathy woodland, and wetland. Their rich biodiversity is evocatively conveyed through haunting visual and sonic footage, and by three dancers who embody the 'landscape in the figure'. Movement, sound and image become increasingly stressed and degraded as the space available to them diminishes, reflecting the precariousness of these unique habitats when encroaching threats swing the ecological balance against them.

Dwell invites contemplative viewing and deep listening. It seeks to cultivate a sense of embodied presence in, and as, nature (landscape in the figure), and in so doing foster appreciation of the part we play in it. Presence as place.
 


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