I am very privileged to have been given the opportunity to take part in this project. Here is a video of one of the rehearsals with Michael Clark Company at the Turnbine Hall in the Tate Modern, on Friday 13th August 2010.
Tate Live:
Part I: residency, 13 July - 30 August 2010
Free public showings in the Turbine Hall
Friday 27 & Saturday 28 August 21.30
Sunday 29 & Monday 30 August 17.30
For Part I of his choreographic project at Tate Modern, Michael Clark and his company have been resident in the Turbine Hall for seven weeks, making the development and rehearsal of his work publicly visible for the first time.
The Company's presence has transformed the monumental space into an arena for experimentation and practice, foregrounding the processes - both artistic and practical - behind making and performing Clark's work.
As well as devising movement for his company's trained dancers, Clark has invited over 75 non-dancers to join weekly workshops with the company. The group of untrained dancers have learned a piece of dance, specially devised by Clark, which will be performed en-masse in the space over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
Clark has presented work within gallery spaces on many occasions, but this residency enables him to respond directly to the iconic architecture and specific character of Tate: as a communal space and as a museum. This series of experiments is, in part, preparation for a new, large-scale performance commission due to be premiered as Part II of the project in June 2011.
