Current Productions
Musical
Colette Sadler’s latest work with sound by Viennese composer and musician Noid takes dramaturgical inspiration from comic burlesque and British Music Hall performance as a starting point to consider the relationship between music and dance.
The Making of Doubt
The making of Doubt takes the human doll as an emblem of representation and places it within the real and impossible condition of its words and actions. Is it possible to extend the notion of agency beyond the human?
dDumY – another myself
This solo performance by Colette Sadler questions human identity through an encounter between a chair and a body where the properties of animate and inanimate become confused and interchangable.
Archive
Body Document and Corresponding 2002-4
In 2002 I began a series of solo works that dealt with a two- fold theme. On the one hand I was interested in further pursuing the theme of head and body separation I had begun in a previous solo ‘Minataur’ and on the other to consider my automated body memory that unconsciously repeats …
Silencio 2000
This is collaboration between an artist and a dancer. One did not do the visuals and the other did not do the movement. There is no story, only situations. There are colours but no symbols.
Minataur 1997
Minataur is a choreographic tableau that explores the idea of head and body separation. Against a background of intense colour, the movement language develops the idea of a body as a series of mutating forms and shapes.
Collaborations
Object Scores
New media sound artist Kirsty stansfield (www rufa.net) invited Colette Sadler to work with her on a residency based at the Southern General hospital in Glasgow working with elderly ladies living under continual care.
Behind Speech
Behind Speech is the result of two day-long workshops undertaken by two actresses, a choreographer and an artist. Together they explored aspects of non-verbal communication using Breaking Bad News, one of the role plays commonly used for training student doctors in the Communication Suites.
Event for Audience
Popmusicians Belle and Sebastian asked colette Sadler to create an eventas part ofTriptych music festival 06 that would offer the experience ofdanceperformance to a pop music audience that may have had nopriorexperience or exposure to it . The event offeredparticipants from the …