Exploratory work for Masters in dance and video. This dance study represents an early investigation for my 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'Verson, London NY

Subliminal events half-noticed from a distance in the middle of a busy day. The three girls walking through and stepping over Camille was not rehearsed. They arrived in the space and just kept on going ...

This space is an intersecting passageway between two streets in Nelson, NZ Aotearoa. The aim was 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 I cut away from Camille rolling to the restaurant across the road to hint that 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.

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