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BLIND SPOT
Blind Spot. Everyone has one. What's yours?

"After I had cut off my hands and grown new ones something my former hands had longed for came and asked to be rocked. After my plucked out eyes had withered, and new ones grown something my former eyes had wept for came asking to be pitied." Denise Levertov

Blind Spot draws an immensely complex landscape that people live in set against a world where there's still amazing beauty. There's a tension between those things, the ugliness of what people do to each other, and life's insistent ability to continue to show us horizons of hope that lead us forward even in spite of ourselves.

The work is concerned with the resurrection, recovery and renewal of the senses, the basic physical experiences by which we make sense of our world. It investigates the possibility of revealing old acts - sounds no longer heard, touches no longer felt - as new, tender, and infuriating. Working in a nonlinear fashion, the work presents us with four individuals awakening to their alienation-both from themselves and others. Having been divorced from their world by the daily numbing onslaught of media, violence, urban "noise" etc., Blind Spot asks what happens when the psyche rediscovers its physical form.

The work investigates the contemporary human condition by looking at a group of people severed from their world, their friends and lovers, their own bodies. The body is rediscovered with alternating wonder and fury, the dancers at times rejecting the pain inherent in vulnerability.