Set and Reset/Reset is a reconstruction of Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset by Candoco Dance Company. The dancers move with dream-like fluidity to Laurie Anderson’s driving score in their version of Brown’s choreography.
In 2011, Abigail Yager, a former member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, used Brown’s set of instructions to devise this new version of Set and Reset. She describes it as examining:
the shifting nature of choreography in relation to underlying structures that anchor a dance to itself. The process of re-construction (as opposed to replication) is a negotiation between freedom and limit – an exploration of possibility as the dancers create a new version of Trisha Brown's landmark choreography.
Through this process, Set and Reset/Reset becomes a significant example of an artist creating a living legacy for their work, allowing for new creative input. The work is an iteration of Brown’s choreographic brilliance, in conversation with the impulses and instincts of the dancers performing for this production.
Candoco is a world-leading professional dance company. Bridging the mainstream and the experimental, their bold approach and powerful collaborations create distinctive performances and far-reaching learning experiences. They celebrate different ways of seeing, of being and of making art, putting them at the forefront of conversation around dance and disability and continually expanding perceptions of #whatdancecanbe.
These performances are part of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels festival running across London from 9–23 March 2022. Built on the values of creation, transmission and education, this wide-reaching celebration of choreography features 17 modern and contemporary dance performances highlighting both major repertoire works and new productions.
Choreography of Set and Reset 1983: Trisha Brown
Choreography of Set and Reset/Reset: Combination of the original and Candoco dancers’s choreography
Direction of Set and Reset/Reset 2022: Abigail Yager
Co-Direction of Set and Reset/Reset 2022: Jamie Scott
Music: Laurie Anderson (music used with kind permission from Canal Street Communications/Laurie Anderson Studio)
Set Design: Robert Rauschenberg
Costume Design: Celeste Dandeker-Arnold OBE (based on the original design by Robert Rauschenberg in 1983)
Original restaging co-commissioned by: Dance Umbrella 2011
Running Time: 24 minutes
Suitability: All ages
Candoco Dance Company
Artistic Director: Charlotte Darbyshire
Producer: Georgia Kersh
Production Manager: Phil Webb
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The performance is in the South Tank on Level 0 of the Blavatnik building. There is loud music and low light levels in the performance space.
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