A site specific performance tour of water related sites
Plymouth & South Devon
20 – 28 June 2009
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In July 2008 award-winning US choreographer/director/media artist Stephan Koplowitz took TaskForce, a newly created company of artists drawn from the fields of dance, music and visual media, to six separate sites across Los Angeles in order to create new site-specific dance and multi-media performances that engage the local community in a creative dialogue.
The inspiration for creating TaskForce was to have the means to enter into a creative dialogue with a chosen area/community. TaskForce creates site-specific performances for several sites within a short period of time that actively engage a variety of artists and organizations derived from communities where the company performs. TaskForce aims to renew people’s perspective on their environment and through performance enter into conversations about the creative process and public life.
In June 2009 TaskForce moves to Plymouth and Dartington to re-imagine the project for a UK audience and creative community in a number of Plymouth’s iconic outdoor spaces. The company – comprising eight dancers and one composer/musician – will move across a range of locations in the Plymouth/Dartington area and create performances in response to the theme of water, finding unusual, inspiring and challenging spaces.
Saturday 20 June Dartington, The Tiltyard
Sunday 21 June Buckland Abbey, The Great Barn
Monday 22 June Plymouth, Roland Levinsky Bldg
Tuesday 23 June Devonport, Camera Obscura
Wednesday 24 June Plymouth, Armada Way
Thursday 25 June Plymouth, Smeaton’s Tower
Friday 26 June Plymouth, The Mayflower Steps
Friday 26 June Plymouth, Barbican Theatre
Sat 27 & Sun 28 June Plymouth, Tinside Lido
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Stephan Koplowitz is an award winning director/ choreographer/ media artist internationally known for his work on the concert stage and for creating original site-specific multi-media works for architecturally significant sites. His site work aims to alter people’s perspectives of place, site, and scale, all infused with a sense of the human condition. Since 1984 he has created 56 works and has been awarded 40 commissions. He is the recipient of a 2004 Alpert Award in the Arts (Dance), a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography in addition to a 2000 New York Dance and Performance Award, “Bessie” for Sustained Achievement in Choreography. A working artist and teacher for the past twenty-five years, Koplowitz is head of the CalArts School of Dance in LA. www.koplowitzprojects.com
LISTEN TO INTERVIEW WITH STEPHAN, courtesy of BBC Radio Devon and The Review Show
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READ ABOUT TASKFORCE in Los Angeles in the LA Times
READ ABOUT LIQUID LANDSCAPES in the Plymouth Herald
READ ABOUT LIQUID LANDSCAPES in the Western Morning News
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This event takes place as part of the Dance-ing Devon and Plymouth Summer Festivals and is part of Respond!, an RSA initiative to highlight the arts’ engagement with environmental issues.
STEPHAN KOPLOWITZ: TASKFORCE Liquid Landscapes has been commissioned by the Transatlantic Arts Consortium, a collaboration between Dartington, the California Institute of the Arts and Idyllwild Arts Academy.
With thanks to our partners: Barbican Theatre, Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, Plymouth City Council, The National Trust, Tamar Education & Business Partnership at Seymour House, Plymouth City Harbour Office, Renaissance South West, University of Falmouth and Dance in Devon.
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The Dartington Hall Trust is a registered charity no. 279756. Company no. 1485560. Registered Office: The Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL United Kingdom. Telephone 01803 847000; Fax 01803 847007;
