Reading the Body: Sue Healey

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screenshot of Reading the Bodyinstallation

In Reading the Body, a duet for dancer and animated anatomical imagery, Sue Healey offers a cinematic and spatial rendering of the body and a poem by Jenny Bornholdt (NZ Poet Laureate).

Inspired by the whimsical nature of the text, curious animations of bones and organs partner the dancers movements, revealing the body for scrutiny.

What are the collaborative narrative possibilities between text and movement?  How does poetry influence the reading of the movement language?  How do we read the body?

Both text and moving image are screened simultaneously, from two different angles, onto a suspended Perspex screen.  The angle and placement of the viewer in relation to the screen, determines whether text or film is observed.  Ideally the audience moves to encounter both the poem and the dance.

Touring Dates
The Block, Queensland University of Technology, 27 June – 20 July 2010
The Block, Queensland University of Technology, 20 October – 3 November 2010
The Glasshouse, Port Macquarie, 8 August to 9 October 2011

[image courtesy of the artist]