‘Seven Impossible Pieces for Four Dancers’
& ‘Departure’
Australian Dance Artists in collaboration with Ken Unsworth
A 60 min video by Philippe Charluet on Seven Impossible Pieces for Four Dancers , a collaboration between Australian Dance Artists (ADA) and renowned sculptor and installation artist Ken Unsworth. Anca Frankenhaeuser, Patrick Harding-Irmer Anca, Susan Barling and Ross Philip with ADA founder and dance educator Norman Hall, responded to Ken’s request to make this work “pure dance“ to challenging music commissioned from Jonathan Cooper and beautifully played by himself, Claire Edwardes, Genevieve Lang, Jason Noble, James Nightingale & James Wannan.
Each section magically lit by Roderick van Gelder and costumed by Emma Kingsbury.
Featured Video: Seven Impossible Pieces for Four Dancers’ Excerpts trailer – 12 min
Above Video Tabs: Seven Impossible Pieces for Four Dancers’ last movement in full – 9 min AND
Departure Trailer – 4 min (does not include Never Ever large operatic section, written by Ken Unsworth and sung by Clive Birch and Rioghnach Wegrecka seen in the photo below)
DEPARTURES (2015)
Our 82min video, Departures is a dance theatre experience full of extraordinary, surreal imagery with the choreography created in response to the music and the strange and wonderful Ken Unsworth’s sculptural creations.
SEVEN IMPOSSIBLE PIECES FOR FOUR DANCERS
AUSTRALIAN DANCE ARTISTS (ADA)
Choreographers/ Dancers
SUSAN BARLING
ANCA FRANKENHAEUSER
PATRICK HARDING-IRMER
ROSS PHILIP
Creative Collaborator/Founder of ADA
NORMAN HALL
Set & Interruptions
KEN UNSWORTH
Composer
JONATHAN COOPER
MUSICIANS
JONATHAN COOPER
piano & harmonium
CLAIRE EDWARDES
side drum
GENEVIEVE LANG
harp
JASON NOBLE
bass clarinet
JAMES NIGHTINGALE
soprano saxophone
JAMES WANNAN
viola
Lighting Design
RODERICK van GELDER
Costume Design
EMMA KINGSBURY
Fabrication and Technical Production
CHRIS AXELSEN
Stage Manager
ANNIE WINTER
A Video by
PHILIPPE CHARLUET
Stella Motion Pictures
Camera
PHILIPPE CHARLUET
MARTYN TAYLOR
Additional Piano GoPro
PAUL GREEN
Sound Recording & Mixing
ROSS A'HERN
Thank You
MIKE BUICK
COLIN FRASER
PAUL GREEN
DEPARTURES
Concept & Set Installations
KEN UNSWORTH
In Collaboration with
Australian Dance Artists
Choreographers/ Performers
SUSAN BARLING
ANCA FRANKENHAEUSER
PATRICK HARDING-IRMER
ROSS PHILIP
Founding Director/ Collaborator
NORMAN HALL
Composer
JONATHAN COOPER
Singers
CLIVE BIRCH
RIOGHNACH WEGRECKA
Musicians
SASCHA BOTA viola
REBECCA CHAN violin
BENJAMIN KOPP piano
GENEVIEVE LANG harp
KATHERINE LUKEY violin
THOMAS RANN cello
Lighting Design
RODERICK van GELDER
Costume Design
PAMELA McGRAW
Artilugios
RICHARD HARRISON
Factotum
CHRIS AXELSEN
Stage Manager
ANNIE WINTER
Crew
MIKE BUICK
COLIN FRASER
Mechanicals
MILES van DORSSEN
A video by
PHILIPPE CHARLUET
Stella Motion Pictures
Camera
PHILIPPE CHARLUET
MARTYN TAYLOR
Sound recording/ Mixing
BOB SCOTT
A very special Thank You to
ROLAND PEELMAN