Slip

Image, sound, and time untether in a combined live foley and dance performance by Aviva Endean and Rebecca Jensen.

In Slip, dance and sound interconnect in a unique duet between award-winning artists, dancer Rebecca Jensen and musician Aviva Endean. Central to Slip is the sound-effect technique of foley, used in film where sounds on screen are recreated in post-production using unlikely objects and body movements in a practice of substitutions, such as waving a pair of leather gloves to make the sound of flapping bird wings. 

Slip connects the illusion of foley to the complexity of our present moment. As the world becomes less comprehensible through the layers of data that feed our daily experiences, algorithmic protocols assist in organising content. These invisible processes are akin to the incantations of medieval occultists, drawing us into relational webs of desire, imagination, and premonition, leading us into a new dark age—an age of unverified truths.

Slip is a 50min work developed and presented in Naarm and Sydney as a short work for the Kier Choreographic Award 2022. It was then presented as a full-length work in FRAME Biennial 2023.

Performer & Choreographer: Rebecca Jensen
Performer & Composer: Aviva Endean
Visual Design: Romanie Harper
LX Design: Jennifer Hector
Outside eye: Lana Šprajcer

Banner image: Rebecca Jensen & Aviva Endean in Slip. Photo by Sarah Walker.