Stephan Koplowitz:TaskForce UK 2009 Perf Excerpts:Dartington (site-specific performance) 

Stephan Koplowitz: TaskForce UK June 2009 "Liquid Landscapes" (a series of water-related site-specific performances).
Liquid Landscapes CONCEIVED, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Stephan Koplowitz
ORIGINAL MUSIC BYHugh Nankivell
CHOREOGRAPHY BYStephan Koplowitz IN COLLABORATION WITH THE TASKFORCE PERFORMERS/ TASKFORCE COMPANY Philine Janssens, Rosalind Noctor, Ezekiel Oliveira, Megan Saunders, Caitlin Smith, Kylie Sudds, Alexandria Yalji, Kevin Williamson
(Anders Duckworth, soloist at the beginning of the performance)
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Lara Lloyd
COSTUME DESIGN BY Rachel Weir
VIDEOGRAPHER Gorav Kalyan
REHEARSAL DIRECTOR Clair Beckett
GUEST ARTISTS/Dance artists (performers) from King Edward VI Community College, Anders Duckworth and University CollegeFalmouth -Emma Bass, Joni Brown, Meghan Carney, Emma Hurman, Nicola Langley, Josephine McCourt, Louise Moxhay, Minou Polleros, Christel Preux, Isabella Shirley-Miller, Sarah Stone
Dartington, the Tiltyard Saturday 19 June 2009 3.30pm
Excerpts from a 30-minute, three-part site-specific performance.
For the entire TaskForce UK project documentation: www.skoplowitz...
At Dartington TaskForce collaborated with student dancers from University College Falmouth and King Edward VI Community College to respond to the architecture of the tiltyard and at a critical time when vital work is carried out to replace the systems that carry water throughout the gardens, respond to its water connections.
The Tiltyard was also selected as a site not only for its connection to water but because of the historical connection to Rudolph Laban and his creative explorations with movement choirs on this very site.
TaskForce is a site-art dance touring company established in 2008 that works on a project-to-project basis. Fluid in its conception, TaskForce is made up of selected artists and performers drawn from the cultural landscape of its host city or region. It is a process-oriented performance laboratory where artists are asked to draw inspiration from the architecture, history, culture, and ecology of multiple sites within a single geographic area, all connected by a common theme. Working within an intensive time frame (three weeks of rehearsal + one week of performances) under the direction of veteran site artist Stephan Koplowitz, each artist is given a different creative "task" to be explored and performed at the various sites. Each performance is content comprised of site-specific choreography, site-adaptive material, and improvisational scores inspired by each performance site. For more information: www.skoplowitz...