Exposure (2006) for 5 dancers and 4
musicians
joint conception/realization by
Tyler Futrell
(composer) &
Johánn Lindall
(choreographer)
The dynamic most common in combinations of dance and music
is one that removes much of their power, leaving music as
servant and dance dependent on its service.
Exposure
was conceived as an equal
partnership between expressions in movement and music,
against the hierarchies inevitable in conventional methods
of collaboration (depicting music with dance,
“soundscape” underscores for movement theater)
… —To utilize the poetic strengths in each
form of expression without crippling either one, and in
fact to show that they are two sides of the same coin.
The working process was filled with constant problem
solving. Both movement and music were created in a
“workshop”/choreographic style involving a
hybrid of planned relations and improvisation based on
simple structures or dynamics.
The aim was to draw out of its hiding place the
always-present similarity between movement and music
stemming from the simple observation that each is a
physical expression of the human body involving both sound
and image, line and rhythm, and space and time.
Listen to a
recording:
Exposure part 1
Exposure part 2
Exposure part 3