21/22 March 7:30PM Platform Arts
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Image, sound, and time untether in a combined live foley and dance performance by Aviva Endean and Rebecca Jensen.
In Slip, dance and sound interconnect in a unique duet between award-winning artists, dancer Rebecca Jensen and musician Aviva Endean. Central to Slip is the sound-effect technique of Foley, used in film where sounds on screen are recreated in post-production using unlikely objects and body movements in a practice of substitutions, such as waving a pair of leather gloves to make the sound of flapping bird wings.
Slip connects the illusion of Foley to the complexity of our present moment. As the world becomes less comprehensible through the data layers that feed our daily experiences, invisible processes stretch the spaces between what we see and what goes on behind the scenes. Unwittingly, we fall out of sync, pairings are pulled apart and abstracted, connections simplified, severed, and rewired launching us into a new dark age – an age of unverified truths.
“Slip is a deeply satisfying work, cleverly constructing synthetic worlds in which Jensen, with great urgency and skill, attempts to refocus our attention.” – Rhys Ryan | Dance Australia
Slip is a 50-minute work developed as a short work for the Kier Choreographic Award 2022. It was then developed into and presented as a full-length work in FRAME a biennial of Dance, Naarm 2023.
Performer & Choreographer: Rebecca Jensen
Performer & Composer: Aviva Endean
Visual Design: Romanie Harper
LX Design: Jennifer Hector
Animation: Patrick Hamilton
Technical Operator: Jordi Edwards
Outside eye: Lana Šprajcer