INSPIRED

Psychology:Danced

Photograph by Sabine Klaus

Created by Dr Peter Lovatt

A new work premiered at the Weston Auditorium on 26 May 2011

Five amazing choreographers were INSPIRED by five psychological questions. The result is Psychology:Danced. If someone cried out, would you help? If someone asked you to remember three simple things, would you, could you? If you saw a chessboard would you know which were the black squares and which were the white? If you asked someone a question and they didn’t know the answer, would you give them an electric shock? If you were acting normally would a psychiatrist think you were mad? Created by Dr Peter Lovatt, INSPIRED is a performance of dance and spoken word where psychological stories are brought to life with fresh, exciting and dynamic dance.

INSPIRED Psychology:Danced

 

ACT 1

 

Scene 1. Introduction - Dance & Psychology

Part 1.  Clear & Beautiful

A film by Ruth Mills

Performed by Ruth Mills

To the voice of the late Martha Graham.

Music: Jon Kelihor. Excerpts from 'Class' and 'Celestial Nile'

 

Part 2.  Flappers

Choreographed and Performed by Scarlett Hiles, Tanya Hill, Holly Jackson-Walters, Camilla Lochun, Laura Tan, Amy Reid with Peter Lovatt

Music: “Roxie’s Suite” by Danny Elfman

 

Scene 2. Sanity

Part 1. EITHER OR
Choreographed and danced by Sabine Klaus & Emma Snellgrove
To the voice of Nicole Carter
3D Visual Artist: Iain Carter
Idea, research, video & sound edit: Sabine Klaus Creation Editor

Notes
'EITHER OR' brings together poetry and dance with sound and visual effects to portray the inner and outer ongoings of poet Nicole Carter who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder over 15 years ago after several severe spells of manic-depression. Those led her to dance busking in the street, running beyond the pain threshold and being homeless. Her true story and poems inspired Sabine Klaus and Emma Snellgrove to move in one and other ways mixed with 3D background imagery created by Iain Carter so the dancers can become one or two or EITHER OR.

          

Part 2. Self Esteem

Choreographed and danced by Holly Jackson-Walters with Peter Lovatt

 

Part 3. Words

Choreographed and performed by Ruth Mills

Trapped in a schizophrenic condition.

Music: Low, 'Words'.

 

 

 

 

Scene 3. Illusions

Part 1. Excerpts From A Bigger Picture

Choreographed by Emma Jayne Park
Danced by Rebecca Cameron, Caitlynn Cummings and Emma Jayne Park
Music: Murcof 'Unison', Four Tet 'Everything Is Alright', Bruno Sanfillipo  Matthio Grasso 'Ambient Music'  
Video Editing Simon Persuad 
The development of this piece was supported by Dancebase, Edinburgh

 

Notes
''We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies — all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.'' Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

 

Part 2.  Seeing with sequins in your eyes

Choreographed by Hagit Yakira

Danced by Scarlett Hiles, Tanya Hill, Holly Jackson-Walters, Camilla Luchun, Laura Tan, Amy Reid with Peter Lovatt

Music: “Razzle Dazzle” by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb.

 

INTERVAL (20 minutes)

 

ACT 2

 

Scene 4. Obedience

Part 1. A conversation: part1

Choreographed and danced by Hannah Buckley and Dwayne Antony Simms
Music. 'Matera' by Rene Aubry.

Acknowledgements. Hannah would like to thank her parents and sister for their continual support. Dwayne would like to thank Bea Udeh for her help and support.

Notes
A conversation: part 1 could be between two friends, or two strangers. It could be a moment of insanity or the sanest action possible. A conversation: part 1 is a response to three psychological studies that looked at bystander apathy, obedience and sanity.

 

Part 2. Kitty Genovese

Choreographed and danced by Scarlett Hiles, Tanya Hill, Camilla Luchun, Laura Tan and Amy Reid

Music. Imma Be, by Black Eyed Peas

 

Scene 5. Memory

Part 1.  Together (A solo)

Choreographed and performed by Ruth Mills

Searching for the future while reminded of the past.

Music: Allegri 'Misereri mei', Gerry Campbell.

 

Part 2. Eight Feet

Choreographed and danced by Camilla Lochun, Tanya Hill, Scarlett Hiles and Peter Lovatt

 

Part 3. Forgotten

Choreography: Anne Marie Kristensen

Performer: Harriet Bailey

Music: "Flying and Flocking" by Zoe Keating

Voice Recording: Alex Sharp Cole

Voice, text and music editing: Anne Marie Kristensen

Part 3. Sunday Morning

Choreography: Hagit Yakira
Performers : Takeshi Matsumoto, Orley Quick, Cornelis Joubert, Hagit Yakira
Producer : Maria Tsaousi
Rehearsal Manager: Maika Klaukien
Dramaturge: Yarit Dor
Scenographer, Lighting Designer: Rachel E. Stanners
Costume Makers: Cornelis Joubert, Berit Laageide
Music: Tom James Scott

 

Notes

Inspired by the different origins of her peers, Hagit takes Sunday Morning to be the place of memories of childhood, of family, of home, and of fear of loss. Through evoking these memories (and feelings) she wishes to explore the emergence of individual identity, and at the same time the persistence of longing to belong.

 

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Paul Upson and the University of Hertfordshire Arts Team, Howard Berry and the students on the BSc TV & Film course at the University of Hertfordshire, Sasha Kline, Peter Ford and Paul Johnathan for stage management.  My heartfelt thanks go to Tracy Ashwood who has coordinated everything to do with INSPIRED Psychology:Danced (including costumes, marketing, liaising with choreographers, arranging accommodation and travel for everyone). Tracy has controlled the chaos and worked tirelessly to make everything in the show look graceful, effortless and beautiful. 

 

Photograph by Sabine Klaus

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The Creative Process  --  In Pictures and Video

video by Sabine Klaus