Memories of Skin​

performed at Trinity Laban Conservatoire

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Sharing on the 17th of March, 14:15pm

Performance on the 21st of Oct., 15:30pm, 18.00pm, Bonnie Bird Theatre

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Choreographer: Greta Gauhe in collaboration with the dancers

 

Dancers:
Hannah Adams, Marta Stepien, Flavien Cornilleau, Natalie Sloth Richter, Johanna Merceron

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Composer: Andy Trewren

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Film/ Edit: Emily Romain

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Costume: Sophie Donaldson

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Set--design: Greta Gauhe

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Production: Trinity Laban

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Tutors:
Eva Recacha and Florence Peake, Tony Thatcher

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Pictures by Rui Cunha Pignatelli

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“Touching our bodies, gesture toward each other and themselves each time challenging and perhaps deforming the body-politic, questioning the boundaries of what it means to touch and be touched to live together to live apart, to belong, to communicate, to exclude.” E.Mannon

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Memories of Skin is a performance about touch and connection. It explores how touch can be remembered and re-visited during a pandemic in the absence of the possibility of close physical contact and stems from a desire to touch and be touched. Four performers explore memory, empathy and imagination to recreate touch-like sensations, to remember the value of touch and to connect to one another, yet in an imagined way. Audience members are called to inhabit the same imaginative space as the performers while experiencing imagined, gentle touch.

 

Once entering please remain seated on your allocated beanbag: 

 

You will find crumpled balls of paper- 

 

You can see them, 

Touch them, 

Feel them, 

Hear them.

 

The room is full of subtle sounds, you produce some of these. 

There are blank pieces of paper around you. We invite you to share some of your memories by answering questions inside the paper-balls.

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Touch has to do with communication, with directness, and it also takes time and requires a consideration of the other. Maybe profound thinking about touch could help us out of our current situation. I hope that my research might make a small contribution towards finding more genuine and diverse forms of togetherness. 

 

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The performance has evolved through the pandemic and deals with the limitations of distanced togetherness to propose how we can experience performance art in a post-pandemic era. 

 

 

The work was made considering government guidelines to ensure everyone’s safety. The work includes audience participation but dancers will remain in distance at all times.

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