Paradise (2016)

Set & Costume Designer

Choreographer - Matti Tauru

Design Collaborations: London Contemporary Dance School x Wimbledon College of Art, The Place, London.

“If there were times during these six collaborations between choreographers and designers when dance and scenography vied for attention, this was not the case with the work that ended the programme. In the subtle Paradise, choreography and design enhance each other. It is partly a question of ‘less is more’: four cube-shaped, frame structures of different sizes; two dancers in white underwear with an armful of charcoal each that they drop, early on, at the front of the stage. Well-matched, equally compelling, Margarida Macieira and Spencer Weidie incorporate the frames into their earthbound duet, and take up positions inside them for the simple, significant gesture on which the piece ends. None of the other five works has quite the same degree of synthesis.” - John O’Dwyer.