Commissioned choreographer Garry Stewart, animator Ian Brown, filmmaker Sarah-Jane Whoulahan and dramaturg Rebecca Reid to produce a work examining the relationship between the body and architecture.
Fusing dance, film and visual effects in an exhilarating investigation of human movement across cultures, Uplift explored how the physical limitations of the human body dictate unexpected similarities across a diverse range of dance styles.
Participants were filmed, animated and mapped onto a unique architectural structure to give the illusion of live bodies moving in dialogue with the building’s exterior facade.
Arts Centre Melbourne, 2013