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 and produces certain stylistic dance movement. The extension of this process, I understood to be a move towards another way of encountering the body and dance history not only as a subject that acts and moves but also that which can be acted upon by rules or sets of condition’s. These rules and conditions becoming the starting point to think about making  choreography.


Credits:

Corresponding

Choreography and Performance Colette Sadler

Sound – Peter Dowling

Corresponding was a commission for NRLA/New Terretories Festival 2004 (The National Review of Live Art) Projects Supporters – Scottish arts council  ,PARTS (summer studios) Brussels, L’animal en Escena Girona, Spain and CCA Glasgow.
‘An amazing essay between dance and life’
Robert Ayers, Live art Magazine
 


Body Document
Choreography Colette Sadler
Performance Colette Sadler & Stefano Spinelli
Sound- Peter Dowling
Light- Jose Nuno Sampaio
Objects Ian Kettles

Body Document was performed at TRAMWAY Glasgow in November 2002 with support from Scottish Arts Council.
 

 


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.


Credits:
Concept:
Mark and Colette Sadler

Choreography and performance:
Mark and Colette Sadler, Stefano
Spinelli, Cinzia Scordia

Slide projection:
Mark Sadler

Video:
Satsuki Okawa

Silencio was presented at TRAMWAY Glasgow Dec 21st 2000 with support from New Moves International,The Scottish Arts Council and CCA (centre for contemporary art Glasgow).

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.


Credits:
Choreography and Performance by Colette Sadler, presented as part of a Double bill together with ‘Zar’ a solo created by Vicente Saez for Colette Sadler at New Moves Festival Glasgow 20th & 21st March 1997.
Minataur was made in residency at Le Groupe De La Place Royale, Ottawa, Canada and with support from New Moves International, British Council, CCA and Strathclyde University Glasgow.

‘a vivid use of significant colour and stunningly expressive arms made me think of Martha Graham (though the vocabulary is different), of expressionist dance and twenties radical experiment’
Mary Brennan, The Glasgow Herald