Choreographer: Saffy Setohy
Sound: The 2.2 KillaVolt Cables (Ben Sassen and Reynir Hutber)
Original dancers: Alice Mackenzie, Lizzie Sells, Rosanna Chierico, Tiina Putus.
Inhabitants of a confined world grapple with shadows as they struggle to preserve their identity in a world of chaos. A quartet, with commissioned music by The 2.2 KillaVolt Cables.
“…..clear dancing and a distinctive sense of mood” Zoe Anderson, Resolution! 2008.
Entropy is the result of a creative process spanning two years, an exploration into the effects of the London city environment on its inhabitants. The choreographer examines in this work the corporeality of the body in relation to architecture, spatial arrangement and tempo of the city. Non-linear narratives and interactions are created through duets and solos, characters emerge, and there are moments of group unison in the work. The sense of time in the work is played with to create an atmosphere that ranges from darkly surreal to playful and metaphorical.
A re-imagined world is created, drawing from exploration into the reality and subjective experience of an existing one.
Artistic interests
- Saffy Setohy
- Cornwall, United Kingdom
- My practice often involves working with improvisation, attention to imagery and sensation, and text/writing, all coming from or working in relation to the body. I am concerned with the relationship between the audience and the performance, and the politics of the performance space. The themes in my work are often exploring what it means to be human, and the embodied self in relation to our lived environment. I have an ongoing curiosity around notions of absence and presence, memory, intimacy and states of transition or change. A concern with how the female body is respresented in performance is also an emerging commonality in a lot of my work. Some of my performances have taken place outside of the theatre space, being in the form of installations, video and site-based works. As a teacher I enjoy facilitating people to find their own means of expression, and to find dynamism and ease of movement with a sense of the embodied and whole self.
Invisible Lines (2012)
a performance action involving the negotiation of space and time between two people connected only by an almost invisible fishing wire
Passing Place (2011)
A structured, improvised duet created for the historical Jacobs Ladder site in Falmouth, Cornwall
Towards Stillness (Image: Uwe Brodmann)
A performance at Outlet Festival, Germany 2009
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