Aphelion Slip

Artists Kim Coleman and Cara Tolmie, and dancer and choreographer Zoë Poluch collaborate for the first time in this new commission for performance festival Block Universe. The work explored the use of light, voice and movement within a theatrical setting.

Aphelion Slip is built from a pocket full of triadic mediations on shared experiences of cumulative writing, video conversations, audible co-body treatments, reading dances, personality development of light fixtures, shadow play, sunbathing, asynchronous premonitions, and orbital hollers.

Grounded upon curious experiments and repetitive analysis, Aphelion Slip uses various scales of astral call and response to deploy the concrete qualities of the three collaborators’ respective lexicons of light, sound, and movement.

Through scoring formulated to disorient dramaturgy, cadence and sequence, the audience is invited to witness this shared practice, unfolding through an enactment of visibilities, audibilities and compatibilities of flesh and electric bodies.

This Block Universe commission has been made possible thanks to the support of the Arts Council England and the Embassy of Sweden, London

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