Curated by Forest Collective’s Kim Tan, Folding explores modern subjectivity and the inexorable relationship creativity has with the past. This entanglement is a metaphor for Kim’s own creativity and the expression it finds within her body. Folding is layered with musings on the dialectic between past and present, which find voice through early and new music, period instruments and contemporary dance.

The centrepiece is a new commission for baroque flute and percussion by Evan J Lawson, which reimagines period instruments beyond their historical context, giving them contemporary expression through New Music.

Folding will reach back in time to return the staid form of the ‘Baroque dance suite’ to its historical origins in movement and the body, and will be given visceral modern expression through the haunting choreography of Ashley Dougan. This tension between stasis and fluidity will be further explored through interwoven improvisatory works, with drone, based on excerpts from Jordi Savall’s Lachrimae Caravaggio.

Program:

Échos – Jacques Hotteterre

Suite No. 1 - Michel de La Barre

Conversation I (improvisation)

The present makes relevant the past – Evan J Lawson (world premiere)

Conversation II (improvisation)

Suite op.1, no.5 – Pierre-Danican Philidor

Artists:

Kim Tan: Traverso flute, performer and curator

Meredith Beardmore: Flute

Rosanne Hunt: Cello

Evan J Lawson: Artistic director, composer

Ashley Dougan: Dance and choreography

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Unfortunately, this means that the venue is not wheelchair accessible, and may not be mobility aid accessible.