Bodies in Flight- Life Class

Abstract

Bodies in Flight formed in 1989, make performance that challenges and re-energizes the conventional relationship between audiences, performers and place, mixing movement with new writing, and often collaborating across art forms and communities.
Life Class celebrates our greatest, most memorable, most requested role - our selves, and asks how we ended up playing this part ... in this scene ... with these lines, making these moves ... And who's that playing opposite?
Beginning with the most simple of set-ups, two performers on stage facing one another in front of an audience, Life Class ends with the most complex expression one person will ever make to another – I love you, followed by an uplifting audience-centred dance.
As an integral part of the process, Life Class offers opportunities for participants, specifically older movers, to share their reflections, inform and co-create the material, developing a discourse throughout the research process, hearing and recreating their stories of romance through social dance, determining how the show’s sound score emerges from their memories, and performing in the work.