This dance study represents an early (2007) investigation for my AUT Masters in dance and video and is part of a wider exploration into activating places which one could term redundant spaces, or 'non-places' (Marc Augé - 'non-places introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity' Verso, London NY. This space is on one of the Cook Strait Ferries in NZ Aotearoa. The aim is to move into and inhabit, through movement or activity which one would not normally expect to see or find, spaces which are tucked away on the edge or periphery of our everyday involvement with the city. In this case, while activating and displacing a non-space, my kinesthetic rolling is attempting to create a movement intervention in extreme contrast with the normality of the everyday activities experienced in the ferry restaurant area. Horizontal movement by an adult across ground spaces illuminates a less-travelled liminal zone of dis-comfort or at least, ambiguity, in most utilitarian public places.

While we are involved in the doings of our own world, simultaneously, perhaps across the street quite different and contrasting activities may be taking place - many worlds meshing, but our focus usually remains narrowed to the one in front of us - only occasionally do we stumble across another concurrent reality and often only sample it briefly before moving on to our next task, meeting, destination - the trappings of our own reality. Incongruous or disassociated movement lends a certain surreal note to the place, activates it and encourages a question in the mind of the viewer - what is going on here? What was that? So our movement tracks and negotiates the space in a fresh way, hoping to instigate a different kind of energy and useage in these forgotten environments. Subliminal events half-noticed from a distance in the middle of a busy day. If you are interested to know more, please see my blog: http://hoststranger.blogspot.com