A Time To Fall: A Collective Performance
Ever fallen? No matter. Fall again. Fall better…. July 17th 6pm Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto Photo: Amy Sharrocks: Invitation to Fall http://sculptureshock-eorg.eventbrite.co.uk/eorg.eventbrite.co.uk/ A Time to Fall, a collective performance, has been developed by Amy Sharrocks in London, UK with a variety of people for whom falling has different resonances… able-bodied people, school children, over 60s ….etc. As Sharrocks writes, “This is a group performance which looks at how people move together. The piece deals with the importance of care and the kindness of strangers. It is about the shock that replays the event and the need to tell the story of each fall as a way of dissipating its power. We look at ways of walking - and of veering off - and how experience, pain and ageing processes are accommodated into our bodies. The result is a measured, strange kind of dance with a gentleness that reflects an act of kindness and careful watching, capturing a moment