Working Alongside

By Sara Giddens
Source: Flesh and Text , pp 42-49
Publication Date: April 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835950715_10
Language: English

In this Flight, I address how the development of duets has supported and structured our methodology. The duet often determines how we collaborate, such as with video artist Caroline Rye in Constants and DeliverUs, with the band Angel Tech in Skinworks and Who By Fire, photographer Edward Dimsdale in Model Love. It structures our devising workshops and organizes the emerging material in the works themselves, such as Tony Judge's video with Jennifer Bell's choral work in Gymnast. I also reflect on the significance of the idea of the duet for any artist whose practice emerges from a personal dynamic, practice or process of reflection, the necessary other to more ‘objective’ critical or philosophical analyses. Whilst duetting implies a moving-together, the less obvious, but maybe more productive force of the duet is a fathomless indeterminacy that keeps us going back for more.

Keywords: choreography ; co-creating with communities ; dance and spoken word ; devising performance ; devising with technology ; performance phenomenology

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