Small Details (2016) live performance
A full-length dance performance, Small Details extends the focus in Parker’s practice on finely crafted minimal movement and gestural action. The work uses a series of automated kinetic sculptures set against dense and intricate choreography. Selected gestures are performed in extreme detail and in repetitious cycles: the work’s duration testing the performers’ and audience’s capacity to meet the demands of the choreographic system.
As the work progresses and the extreme detail is almost at breaking point, the work aims to attune attention beyond the choreography to the dancer’s performance itself, revealing the vulnerabilities, limitations and potentials of the body in an automated and technologically advanced world.
Credits:
Choreographer: Sandra Parker
Sound: David Franzke
Kinetic Sculpture Design: Rhian Hinkley
Performers: Kasey Lack, Melissa Jones, Rebecca Jensen (2016), Arabella Frahn-Starkie (2017)
Presentation:
2017: Dance Massive
2016: Dancehouse
2015: Open Studios Work-in-Progress, March 2015