THE VIOLET HOUR

Colette Sadler

In The Violet Hour three singing dancers inhabit a dark and mutable landscape of song, movement and digital imagery.

Drawing inspiration from the ecological ethos of Ovid’s epic poem Metamorphoses and phytopoetic texts, it constructs posthuman choreographic episodes focusing on the relationships and entanglements between human and non-human agencies. Time seems suspended as scenes allude to beginnings or end of all time, creating states of transformative hybridity.

Sound, movement, 3D animation and AI-generated text coalesce in an uncanny world where human anatomies and desires intertwine with those of plants and artificial intelligence. Featuring sound and music by Samir Kennedy and 3D animation by Alexander Pannier.

Colette Sadler is a Scottish dancer, choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist. Her work operates at the intersection of dance, sculpture and digital art. Her interdisciplinary performances often explore the relationship between the human and the non-human, and the relationship between real and virtual spaces. In her performances, she stages bodies and identities in moments of transformation in which transitions between real and virtual realms are created by means of fiction. Since 2016 she has been developing "Present Futures”, a cycle of curatorial events exploring themes of speculative futures and post-humanism in collaboration with The Centre of Contemporay Art Glasgow UK. For more information: visit Colette Sadler website.
Artistic direction and choreography: Colette Sadler
Performance: Leah Marojevic, Samir Kennedy, Maeva Bartelot
Dramaturgy: Maxwell McCarthy
Music and sound installation: Samir Kennedy
Costume design: Emma Adler
Lighting design, video installation and technical direction: Veli-Ville Sivén
3D animation and video post production: Alexander Pannier
The Violet Hour is a co-production with Tramway/Dance International Glasgow (Glasgow), Tanzhaus NRW (Düsseldorf), Charleroi Dance (Brussels), and Tanztendenz (Munich). Supported by Scottish Dance Theatre (Dundee), The Work Room (Glasgow), Battersea Art Centre (London), Goethe Institute and Festival De Marseille (Marseille) / British Council Uk/France Spotlight “Imaginons Ensemble”. Funded by Creative Scotland and Nationale Performance Netz Co-Production Dance Fund Germany.
Touring 1 choreographer, 4 dancers, 1 sound designer, 1 light designer and 1 production manager.
Stage and Technical Requirements
- Stage size 10 x 10 Metres minimum.
- Clean white cyclorama or screen for video.
- White dance floor.
- 1 Beamer more than 5000 lumen
- 4 wireless microphone headsets
For more information, check availability, please contact eckhard@eckhardthiemann.com.