This screen dance moves within the confines of an elevator to explore the tightness of unresolved argument. The work examines conflict as a kind of claustrophobia: where one can physically leave but remain emotionally entangled, or depart inwardly while still being present physically. Choreographically entwined with the elevator’s physical limits, the work negotiates the tension of ‘leaving’: the body in transit while the self remains caught in the folding and uncoiling of disagreement. The elevator becomes both threshold and echo chamber—reflecting the layered continuances of ‘leaving’.
Originally presented projected across elevator doors, the screening was accompanied by a live dancer traveling up and down between audience members on two floors. The film was fractured each time the doors opened to reveal fleeting glimpses of the live dancer, suggesting leaving is partial, layered, and never complete.
Dancer: Kylie Sudds
Music: Shirley Greirson