Sarah Elsworth x Anita Clark
Violin Mantis
Green Sites (Worlshop)
Violin Mantis
Welcome to the science-fiction room; A violin mantis sways, gesture becomes data, a biological catalogue is composed on the fly. This performance is not observed so much as entered. Fresh from recent collaborations in India, interdisciplinary artists Sarah Elsworth and Anita Clark open a speculative sensory laboratory of sound, movement and image.
Photography: Owen Spargo & Jaehwan Lee
Green Sites (workshop)
This workshop offers practical ways to explore how movement, environment, memory and community can inform site-responsive performance. Engaging with the park as a creative site, participants create short “microscapes” through simple scores, improvisation and experimental performance encounters.
The session introduced tools and tasks from Green Silence, an evolving site-specific performance project by Sarah Elsworth and Anita Clark. Open to movers and performers from all artistic disciplines who are curious about collaboration, working with the environment and making performance collectively.
* Green Silence is a site-specific research project exploring our human connection to outdoor green spaces; through the collision of choreography, poetry, story & sound.
Photography: Alan Schacher
About
Sarah Elsworth is an interdisciplinary movement artist working between Aotearoa and India. Her practice spans experimental performance, site-responsive work, and interdisciplinary collaboration, exploring how movement, sound and environment collide.
Anita composes music for film, theatre, movement and dance. Performing under the moniker MOTTE as her solo persona, she primarily uses violin, sampled sound/field recordings, synthesiser, and voice to create richly textured sound beds to convey otherworldly landscapes and preternatural impressions.