ABSTRACT
Bertolt Brecht’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny was used to provide a narrative frame for three dancers, Keir Patrick, Ronnie Shapiro and Sapphire Williams, from the Laban Centre, London, UK, who were invited to collaborate on developing a vocabulary to communicate the idea of transportable space. The work developed into a series of cycles: the grand narrative (the city) and the sub-plots (the tents – their constant state of fugacity) and the dancers (the dwellers). Chris Baker was commissioned to compose a five-minute cyclical soundscape that built up from one single tone into multiple tones, slowly deconstructing back into one single note to continue the cycle. The tangible and intangible notions of home were represented by perimeters, boundaries and borders including various cycles and circles of music and motion.
