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<\/a><\/p>\nSCREENINGS:
\nBristol
\nBelmont Picture House, Aberdeen; 14 October, 2008 (part of Dance Live 2008)
\nFACT, Liverpool, 5 November, 6:30pm 2008
\nCCA Glasgow, 25 September, 2008<\/p>\n
PROGRAMME:<\/p>\n
The screening programme includes Michael Clark in Prospero\u2019s Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)
\nIn Greenaway\u2019s film of Shakespeare\u2019s The Tempest, we see the use of theatrical conventions as well as the movement of the camera in film-making \u2013 the proscenium frame as well as the lateral movement of the camera and the creation of spaces available to film \u2013 to create a different contemporary evocation of power and social roles. Greenaway tells the story by visual rather than verbal means. His method is to use long tracking shots to travel through the architectural interiors of Prospero\u2019s imagination and to arrive at tableaux which show the dramatic scenes. In these scenes, it is choreographed movement that shows the tension between the characters \u2013 as in the case of Caliban\u2019s confinement by Prospero \u2013 or the stately manipulations Prospero is effecting between the other players. In contrast to the relationship between body and space common to other works in this programme, here Greenaway creates the space that Clark inhabits independently, although as a performer he keenly makes use of the camera\u2019s position. Clark\u2019s own style of movement as a choreographer and dancer is \u2018framed\u2019 by Greenaway in this way, to illustrate the power struggle between Caliban and Prospero, with Clark\u2019s \u2018wild creature\u2019 Caliban showing both the exquisite movements of Clark\u2019s classical training and his individual (and here wayward) movement designs. Clark\u2019s movement is very different from that of other characters throughout the film, and Greenaway makes use of his individuality and expressiveness to make this a central narrative thread.
\nIn this scene, Caliban entices the fools of the royal court to follow him. Where in earlier scenes his movement has been circular and contained, here he begins to test his spatial affinities differently, using linear extension as well as elaborate and classical movement, which the camera sets up within an architectural frame.<\/p>\n
And Michael Clark in The Late Michael Clark (Sophie Fiennes, 2000)
\nClark has worked with a number of film directors to create works for film from the stage. Here he works closely with the filmmaker Sophie Fiennes, who responds to each musical phrase in the choreographed stage work Current\/See. In this short extract, the camera \u2018holds\u2019 and yet allows Clark to remain isolated within a circle of surrounding musicians, gradually moving closer so that the personal cost and process of the work \u2013 its fluid development and its points of delineation \u2013 are clearly seen.<\/p>\n
Helena Blaker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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