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Touch Wood tantalises with works in progress that use Faust, MTV’s The Grind and Pride and Prejudice for inspirationThe informal sharing of works in progress has become an integral part of modern dance-making. The process allows choreographers to try out ideas in front of an audience, or to solicit peer opinion and to give potential funders an thought of projects in hand. Sharings of work are usually private; choreographers are understandably wary of showing partly formed work. But final week the site opened its autumn season with Touch Wood,a paid event open to the public.
Four works were on offer in Wednesday’s programme, in various stages of evolution. In The Face to Face, and James Morgan and Esther Siddiquie showed us a fragmentary duet,a video projection (by Alex Springer) of Morgan and Siddiquie issuing commands to each other by megaphone – “Thou shalt not abolish me” – and an audio recording of a brief passage from Pride and Prejudice.
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Source: theguardian.com