Embodiment :: Performance :: Education
Soft Prosthetics & Metal Gods :: Premiere June 2018 :: Riverside Theatres
Soft Prosthetics & Metal Gods by Kathryn Puie and Lux Eterna. Video by Sam James, Stills by Heidrun Lohr
Soft Prosthetics and Metal Gods
is a co-devised performance piece by physical performer Kathryn Puie and videographer Lux Eterna. Puie and Eterna duet on stagewearing their prostheses. Eterna wears her camera rig and Puie her stilts. The use of live video feed, explores how ocular technology can be embodied physically by carefully considering corporeal relationships to apparatus/prosthesis. Exploring intimations around the embodiment of our objects and ourselves, the work asks how may the gaze be shifted into more visceral intelligences. Investigations are suspended surrounding the ambiguity of prosthesis as a supplement to diminished capacity; extending existing capacity; and the experimentation with new capacity.
Sound Design: Ashley Scott, Costume: Pamela Berbigier, Outside Eye: Nicola Heywood, Lighting: Benjamin Brockman, Video Mixing: Jacqueline Wechsler
Keir Choreographic Award 2020 Very Excellent Disabled Dancing
Choreographer/performer: Riana Head-Toussaint Performers: Georgia Cranko and Holly Craig Videography: Riana Head-Toussaint and Lux Eterna Sound design: Riana Head-Toussaint and Stephen Dobson Outside Eye: Imogen Yang
In Very Excellent Disabled Dancing, three visibly-disabled dancers expose the distinct, persistent differences in the way dance is consumed and understood when performed by people with disability.
The dancers confront and reframe the dominant gaze; laying bare anatomical preoccupation, saccharine sympathy and uninformed hostility to make way for genuine engagement with diversity in dance.
Where my feet will always land - solo performance MPP, D.C, USA March 2020
Video coming soon
Where my feet will always land. DC, USA, March 2020