I listened to Lucy Cash’s Crossing Borders 06/11/09 talk. This talk began with the question ‘if an artist’s background is dance, but their work doesn’t come out through a movement form – do we call the work dance – or do we call it something else? Are we then dancers? Lucy Cash talks about how we can think of interdisciplinary performance work as an ‘applied craft’ and that we are ‘applied choreographers’.
I found it interesting to hear her background and about how events in her life have brought her to where she is today. Lucy cash trained in dance from a young age. She got hit by a car after a long morning of dance and dislocated her knee and fractured her skull – but didn’t break spine. She was then told she could no longer dance. After hearing this news she went to university to study performance and film. This exposed her to a range of theories and ideas. After graduating she worked as a performer and didn’t see herself as a maker. She began to leave behind this idea and began to make work herself.
She expresses how she is drawn to looking at the extraordinary appearance of ordinary things. When crossing art forms – words to think about: translation and displacement. Rather than being sought out, the sources will come to the artist. When collaborating, not all artists speak the same ‘language’. However, everyone has rhythmic intuition. As people we have an awareness of rhythm within life. The sequence of locking and unlocking a door is using rhythm in our everyday life. When an audience member sees a person fall on stage – the viewer falls too.
“Our body is in the world like the heart is in an animal”
“The purpose of art is to challenge perception”
“When we are silent and standing still, we are not resting, we’re searching inside ourselves for the turn”
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