Selected Portraits
"green bean dance's ensemble of six slip and shift through each other's space in a sepia-toned collage. Their actions and interactions suggests themes of power, protection and isolation. But the beauty of Selected Portraits is not so much in the specifics of individual stories as in the overlaying of images, a confluence of precious and painful moments. The fragility of memory is enacted in this wander through semi-eroded recollections. A tender and beautiful reminder of the value of remembrance."
Kate Larsen
Choreography: Katie Green in collaboration with performers Rachel Birch-Lawson, Liora Goldwater, Victoria Hammond, Steve Johnstone, Daniela B. Larsen and Leon Smith
Music: No matter how long you stayed it wouldn't have been long enough by thelistencollective
Lighting design: Gareth Green
Costume: Martina Trottman
green bean dance performed Selected Portraits on 22nd February 2008 as part of Resolution! 2008, on the 11th and 13th April 2008 at Chisenhale and on the 10th June 2008 as part of the Pulse Festival 2008 (Ipswich).
