Satelliser is a new group dance work for galleries by choreographer Janine Harrington, winner of Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award (2020)
Satelliser is a rarely used French transitive verb which means “to put into orbit”. Satelliser: a dance for the gallery is a durational performance work for an intergenerational group of women. These dancers subtly alter their spatial configurations in response to the visitors’ movements, playing with the relationship between performance, visitor, and space.
In 2020 the work is being redeveloped through an online discursive rehearsal process across 5 time zones through multiple states and stages of lockdown. As a team of coworking artists, we have each navigated scales of upheaval, dislocation, political turmoil and changing personal circumstances, the processes of being together through conversation have both amplified and challenged what we imagined this work might be and do.
Satelliser: a dance for the gallery will tour to BALTIC Bluecoat, and Turner Contemporary (dates TBC in 2021) with CONTINUOUS Network.