Intertwining dance, song and digital video, the work consists of three distinct episodes. Each one is driven by one of the three performers around thematics of love, de-creation and transformation.  Moving between real and digital realms, it proposes a surreal exploration of the relationship between humans and our surroundings, stretching the notion of how we are both influenced by and implicated in the changing ecologies around us.

The performers are set in a landscape at a fictional 'end point' inspired in the mythological texts of Ovid's Metamorphoses, where human origins are founded in stone.

The choreography equips the performers with the imaginary of a body with heightened sensory awareness, connection and empathy with and for the silent and mysterious organic world around them.  This dance work asks: Can new figures and narratives be found that stand in opposition to humanity's self-destructive drive and the natural disasters that result? And what intimacies, bodies and desires could these hybrid beings of plant life and human produce?

In a time when our relationship with the natural world is urgently shifting in ungraspable ways, The Violet Hour attempts to offer new phytopoetic mythologies in motion. This new work is an attempt to offer a potential future toward a more sensually entangled interdependence with the natural world.

CAST

Artistic Direction and Choreography : Colette Sadler
Performance: Leah Marojevic, Samir Kennedy and Maëva Barthelot
Set and Lighting concept : Veli-Ville Siven
Video Design: Alexander Pannier
Lighting Design: Benny Goodman
Sound Design : Samir Kennedy
Costume: Edgar Mauser
Object Design : Philine Rinnert
Dramaturgy : Maxwell McCarthy
Produced by Feral (Kathryn Boyle & Jill Smith)
Choreographic Assistance: Roseann Dendy 

CREDITS

The Violet Hour is a co-production with Tramway/Dance International Glasgow (Glasgow), Tanzhaus NRW (Düsseldorf), Charleroi Dance (Brussels). With support from Tanztendenz (Munich) Scottish Dance Theatre (Dundee), The Work Room (Glasgow), Battersea Art Centre (London), Goethe Institute and Festival De Marseille (Marseille) / British Council Uk/France Spotlight “Imaginons Ensemble”.

Funded by Creative Scotland and NPN Co-Production Dance Fund. Produced by Feral & Colette Sadler/ Stammer Productions.