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Marvellous Mechanical Museum
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UK
30 June-30 Sept 2018A video of the dance piece 'The Machinery' (co-devised with Caroline Radcliffe), for a summer exhibition of automata, exploring the boundaries between the living and the animate.
- Time 11:00 AM Admission £15 (£5 under 15s)
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Compton Verney Warwickshire, CV35 9HZ, UK
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30 June – 30 September 2018
A video of the dance piece ‘The Machinery’ appears in this summer exhibition of automata, exploring the boundaries between the living and the animate. ‘The Machinery’ is an astonishing early 19th-century clog dance, devised by women working in cotton mills. As they danced, the women closely mimicked the sounds and actions of the mill machines around them. This is a new interpretation of the dance, one I co-devised with Caroline Radcliffe in 2007. It incorporates a soundpiece composed from the sounds of Quarry Bank, a working cotton mill on the Cheshire-Lancashire border.
The video in this exhibition was made by Jon Harrison. It shows our performance of ‘The Machinery’ for Algomech 2016, Sheffield Millennium Centre.