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The Ruby Glass by Project Rainbow
Project Rainbow explores the study of colour through movement and collaboration. While L’Human Comedy (2005), a study into the colour yellow, featured Sydney Hermont as sole director, Variations on Green (2006) drew from a collaborative group made up of Sydney Hermont, Heidi Nutley, Jesse Birch, and Jade Boyd. The present project, The Ruby Glass (red) expands this collaborative trajectory by recognizing audience interaction as a productive resource.
The Ruby Glass takes its name from Werner Herzog’s 1976 film, Herz aus Glas, and draws upon public workshops to study RED (green’s after image). Interestingly, Herzog claims to have hypnotized his actors in the filming of this pastoral village’s obsession with red glass. This film instigates a space of interrogation of movement that ranges from repressed and/or involuntary gestures to gestures of agency and/or control. Consequently, one primary focus here is to study the relationship of gestures to the colour red. Implicated in this questioning is the relationship of the gesture to hypnosis, mimesis, structure, tradition, and the dancing plagues of the early 14-16 Centuries in Europe (characterized by erratic spasms, mass hysteria, and often death).
Note that there will be three presentations made by the group: 2:00 pm 2:30 pm 3:00 pm Participants are encouraged, but not required, to wear red.
- host:
- Project Rainbow
- date & time:
- May 30th, 2007 at 2 pm
- location:
- 6363 Stores Road Studio 2A University of British Columbia
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]