Species of Spaces is a customisable dance work. Catalogue of many choreographic situations; it is not one single fixed piece but rather a collection of countless possible variations. Selecting and assembling the catalogue’s different items together allows to create a bespoke dance performance.
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This choreographic catalogue currently comprises nine situations: Edges of Sand | Enclosed Ash | Euclidean Drop | Ivory Lattice | Blank Prussian Blue| Mikadopark | Racing Green Station | Watch this Sinopia | Wide Open Coral.
“Slick and so refined. Mesmerizing and organic.”
Rose Westwood
Species of Spaces is a title borrowed from French writer Georges Perec. Initiated by Lucille Teppa, the project was first researched in 2014 at the Ballet National de Marseille (France) thanks to the Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund. Supported by Arts Council England, it has then been further developed over the recent years via residencies at Dance Research Studio (London), Dance Limerick (Ireland) and Penpynfarch (Wales). Performances have taken place at St John’s Church (Limerick), as part of Agony Art (London), at The Point (Eastleigh) as part of Café choreographique, at The Cut (Halesworth) as part of Moving Arts East and at Chisenhale Dance Space (London).
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“So female. And beautiful. So quietly, precisely, wafting and wefting.
Filing through space. Drawing lines in space. A brocade or a tapestry.
One almost breathes the breath, drops with the fall into movement as the dancers weave their pathways, count their steps and a pattern evolves.
Cut. Breaking the thread.
Pick up the weave. Another weave, another fabric emerges.
Cut.
Distinct test pieces, each skillfully designed. We watch them materialising before us,
a catalogue of myriad possible variations.
It ends with a single thread drawn on a journey through nostalgia, in stillness,
a margin woven in memory, the edges of now.”
Review and sketch by Carolyn Roy
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