[csaa-forum] Performance seminar

[James Donald]

UNSW Media Film & Theatre Seminar
5 p.m. Wednesday 4 October
Webster Building Cinema 327


LIGHT MUSIC
Thierry De Mey



Thierry De Mey is an award-winning, internationally-exhibited Belgian 
artist who works collaboratively as a composer, percussionist and 
film-maker.  He has been the director of choreographic composition at 
the prestigious PARTS school attached to the Rosas company in Belgium 
since its establishment.  Recent projects include directing a film in 
autumn 2005 with choreographer William Forsythe and, in spring 2006, 
composing an original score for the encounter between choreographer 
Akram Khan (London/India) and Sylvie Guilhem (Paris).  He is 
currently in Sydney to facilitate a dance screen workshop for 
Critical Path and ReelDance.

Movement is central to all Thierry De Mey's work, and much of his 
music is composed for dance and cinema.   In this presentation, he 
will discuss his recent live production Light Music and his 
installation Into the Woods.  Light Music is a work for a 
conductor/soloist that explores the relationship between movements 
producing sound and the movements of dance.  Moving hands cross a 
beam of light and trigger percussive sound, and the movement is 
simultaneously given form as a projected visual 'trace'.    Deep in 
the Wood is a three-screen projection or hexagonal screen set-up 
accompanied by his own original electro-acoustic score. The 
choreographic material was created by some thirty artists (including 
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jonathan Burrows and Sidi Larbi 
Cherkaoui) who were invited to choose a character from a fairytale or 
myth and then to bring them to life in a forest where the footage was 
shot.  The result is an installation in which the movement phrases 
across screens conjure up an immersive environment.

-- 
Dr James Donald
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre
University of New South Wales
Sydney
NSW 2052
Australia

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