FireBox were back into the studio this week, well when I say studio I actually mean the boardroom of my mum’s work as Glasgow City Council can’t seem to book a hall with a month’s notice. Grr. Anyway, we were back into rehearsals working on new material for Silver, a piece based on Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou.
The first rehearsal went well and we’re on our way to creating a new piece which will be premiered at FireBox and Blaze’s next evening of dance, Electric Silhouette, at Gilmorehill G12 on Sat 28th Nov.
Tickets are on sale now so don’t hang around.
For the second time in my career I was invited onto radio Scotland today to teach a dance class. Not exactly the most radio friendly of activities but I have to say it went well and I was pleased that John Beattie decided to get stuck in and get dancing on air.
Listen again via www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland and click on Wednesday 10th June’s MacAuley & Co programme.
As the screen flickers something catches your eye, maybe it’s nothing, no wait, there it is again. You can’t quite make it out but you’re sure you can see something, someone moving in the white noise. Keep looking, it’s getting clearer…
FireBox is working on a new piece with 6 dancers, 2 screens and a collection of TV sets based on the idea of images appearing and disappearing into white noise. With so many components this will probably be one of the most technical pieces to date so I’m expecting lots of late nights editing footage that will be displayed on separate screens and relate to each other.
White Noise will be premiered at The Foundations Collective evening of dance at St. Brides, Edinburgh on Thursday 23rd April then performed again as part of a Blaze/FireBox evening of dance in Gilmorehill G12 Theatre, Glasgow on Tuesday 30th June. More details to follow.
Quite a lot, I think, so it’s time for me to get everything together under one name and get it all onto one site. Details to follow but I aim to do this at the weekend so keep your eyes peeled.
Filed under: As the sparks fly upwards..., dance technology, performance, the arches
Thursday 5th March 7.30pm Pay what you can.
This exciting new event for all things physical uses the ‘talkback’ Scratch format, this month exploring movement and image. Artists include award-winning German video editor/dance video maker Sabine Klaus, choreographer Susan Elena and visual artist Anna Henson (MFA, Glasgow School of Art).
To Scratch contact lj@thearches.co.uk
FireBox are pleased to be involved in the first ever Scratch Moves night, after being approached by The Arches, to rework As the sparks fly upwards… into a performance piece.
Filed under: As the sparks fly upwards..., FireBox Dance Theatre, dance, performance, the arches, visuals
The visuals for Underneath the Arches didn’t work out quite as planned. We didn’t get the costumes in time so had to stick with the Death Disco visuals rather than filming our own. It wasn’t ideal but it worked and it fitted in with the night overall.
We do get a chance to do it properly again at the beginning of March as we’ve been asked to perform the piece at an evening of dance at the Arches which will be good. As the sparks fly upwards was originally a durational performance that the audience could come in and out of but for this event we’ll be altering the piece so it becomes a timed, sit down performance.
THEN at the end of April we’ve been asked to perform at St Bride’s in Edinburgh to launch a new dance collective’s website. Time for a bit of inspiration I feel.
Underneath the Arches is happening tonight and, like most theatre/arts/performance events, there are a lot of things which have been left to the last minute – including my visuals. I have the back up of using some Death Disco visuals, courtesy of the brilliant Jaygo Bloom, but ideally I’d like some visuals of the dancers themselves in their brand new costumes but the wardrobe assistant is still buying them and I haven’t been able to get the dancers together any sooner than yesterday.
It’s not an ideal situation but I’m planning on quickly filming the dancers in costume this afternoon and incorporating those visuals into the Death Disco visuals if they work together. It’s all very last minute and fingers crossed which is strange for me – I’m never normally working this close to the edge but it’s just one section in a huge performance so it’ll all pull together tonight.
Underneath the Arches
The Arches
Sat 17th Jan 10pm – SOLD OUT.
