Ashley Dyer's new work Tremor explores the movement associated with vibration by literally shaking its dancers.
With a large team of collaborators, Dyer has invented and constructed a custom-built 8m x 8m vibrating floor comprising 13 shake tables and over 230 metal poles. When the shake tables are charged with audible and sub-sonic sound they vibrate the metal poles making them move in simple choreographed patterns and they also resonate additional sound for Nigel Brown’s sound score. Immersed within a grassland of metal poles, three female dancers (Kristy Ayre, Nat Cursio and Jo White) move in mesmeric but simple ways to create a performance that complements the motion and sound of the kinetic sculpture/musical instrument. The third work in a series of dance-portraits, Tremor is a venture into the natural, the constructed, the individual and the environment – it is heard and felt through the whole body.
Tremor will be presented at Arts House 16-20 November.