Sandra Parker Dance

Transit is the result of an ongoing artistic relationship between choreographer Sandra Parker and dancer Phoebe Robinson. A solo performance, Transit is a multi-art form experience about the heightened sensations of transition and transformation.

The beginning point for Transit emerged from personal experience. In the summer of 2007/8 I was forced to be still to recover from an injury. While unable to move far, or quickly, I became interested in how small movements carried the intensity, hope and possibility of larger movements across time and space. The experience drew my attention to moments in our everyday life when we are in 'transit', 'between' one place and another, or one event and another. Although in contemporary life we can seemingly be anywhere and everywhere at once via the speed and efficiency of engineering, technology and the Internet, the moment of transit is alluring as a space of possibilities. In Transit what is about to happen is still to come, and what has been left behind slips into the past, an opening to an alternate future...