Directed and performed by Sakura Tanaka and Gemma Rowan in collaboration with Dan Kai Teatro, AGNES - high quality explores the composition of eggs and electrical appliances and involves the distortion, fragmentation and deconstruction of contact, context and domestic science. The performance looks at the nature of identity in contemporary society, raising questions about continuity, reason and the desire to conform.
The work was first created as a site specific piece. It was devised using the objects, texts, personas and unique architecture found in a warehouse located within an old distillery. Throughout the development of the performance we continued to explore approaches to structuring and framing the material we created. Sequences, actions, activities and events have been yuxtaposed in a succession of starling visual images, continously transforming the work's multiple narratives. The work has also been performed in a disused pharmacy in Iceland and at the Camden People's Theatre in London. Space is an important aspect of the performance and we always seek to allow the unique attributes of the environment in which we place the work to inform its development, creating new surprises.
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