BURROW is a screendance work created by Alan Parker in collaboration with videographer, Sonja Smit. The work emerges from an exploration of the relationship between the human body and a range of different animal behaviours, and our common need, at some points in our lives, to burrow.
Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of becoming-animal, the work places the human dancer in an embodied conversation with different movement motifs, physical qualities, rhythms and forces, inspired by movement patterns of different animals. These conversations between the human body and animal inspirations were filmed in various spaces in and around The Monument building in Makhanda. The film depicts the journey of several of these human-animal hybrid entities, as they descend down staircases and basement passages to arrive in a subterranean theatre, where all the animal intensities co-compose with the human body in a surreal dance performance.
Production Credits
Choreographed and performed by Alan Parker
Videography by Sonja Smit
Supported by the Rhodes University Research Council Grant
About the Artists
Alan Parker is a performer, choreographer, dramaturg and researcher. He has presented a range of work at various festivals and platforms over the last two decades, including the National Arts Festival in Makhanda, the Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg, the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees in Oudtshoorn, the Cape Town Fringe and the Live Art Festival in Cape Town. He has been a recipient of a Standbank Ovation Award (for Detritus for one in 2015), a Silver Ovation Award (for Sacre for one in 2016) as well as a Fringe Fresh Award in 2016.
- Programme type: vFringe
- Genre: Film
- Duration: 13 minutes
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Ages:
14+
- Academic or Professional Content
