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carrier

commissioned by citymoves, Aberdeen, premiered at Peacock Visual Arts, October 2007 as part of DanceLive! 07.

choreography and performance: Sue Hawksley
dance artist: Vivien Wood
percussion: Signy Jakobsdottir
costume designer and maker: Selina Nightingale
lighting design: Roy Fairhead

carrier was developed and previewed during a residency at Dance Base, Edinburgh with support from the Space at Dundee College and Dame Allan's Schools, Newcastle.

carrier is an abstract dance-work engaging themes of transmission, mutation and metamorphosis, evoking fears of contamination and disease. The concept and design of the piece draw on notions of exterior beauty belying interior dangers, with references and allusions to viruses, epidemics and witch-hunts. The text derives from the Malleus Malificarum, the 15th century treatise on witches.
The space is cut and divided and the audience' view obscured by gauzes and screens as costumes change and transform.