《降臨》

內容簡介：

《降臨》由破格展能藝術家愛麗絲・謝帕德 (Alice Shepard) 構思，聯同展能藝術家組成的破格舞團共同製作，為觀眾帶來扣人心弦的演出，與舞者穿越光影、乘空而降、釋放重負。

以希臘神話中的女神維納斯 (Venus) 和安朵美達 (Andromeda) 的動人愛情為故事藍本。《降臨》把故事主角設定為異族戀人，在仿製成山丘的特製斜台上共舞。舞者謝帕德和羅遜 (Laurel Lawson) 乘坐着輪椅自由飛翔，把二人壓抑的慾望釋放出來。配合燈光和投影特效，彷彿看到希臘女神降臨到舞台上，與舞者相映。經改裝的輪椅成為了舞者肢體的延伸，配合他們舞藝的精準度和驚人的體力，表達衝破禁忌的情感。

演出系列：

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計畫／藝術節：

第三屆「無限亮」

藝術範疇：

舞蹈

資料搜集／導演／構思： 愛麗絲．謝帕德
編舞及演出： 愛麗絲．謝帕德、羅勞爾．羅遜
燈光及錄像設計： 米高．瑪格
服裝及化妝設計： 羅勞爾．羅遜
聯合導演： 米高．瑪格、愛麗絲．謝帕德
監製： 殘障舞蹈工場有限公司
剪接： 賽娜．古拉雅
攝影／攝錄工程師： 實驗多媒體演藝中心攝錄團隊
Audimance應用程式設計： 羅勞爾．羅遜
Audimance音響／混音： 安迪．史萊特
英文口述影像： 雪兒．葛林

DESCENT

Presented by: Hong Kong Arts Festival
Produced by: Kinetic Light
Platform: Website

Synopsis: DESCENT is Kinetic Light’s new dance film which challenges cultural assumptions of what disability, dance, and beauty can be.

Researched, Directed and Conceived by: Alice Sheppard
Choreographer and Performance: Alice Sheppard, Laurel Lawson
Lighting and Video Designer: Michael Maag
Costume and Makeup Designer: Laurel Lawson
Co-Directors: Michael Maag, Alice Sheppard
Producer: DISABILITY DANCE WORKS, LCC. Dba Kinetic Light
Editor: Shaina Ghuraya
Camera and Video Engineers: The Empac Video Team
Eric Brucker, Lead Video Engineer with Mick Bellow and Ryan Jenkins
Audimance Design: Laurel Lawson
Audimance Content Sound Designer/ Mixer: Andy Slater
Audio Description in English: Cheryl Green
Scheme/ Festival: The third edition of “No Limits”
Art Form: Dance
Act 1
(1) In a world of sky and water, Andromeda and Venus meet. Andromeda discovers
herself at the peak, frantic and guarded. Her spirit guide observes. As she cautiously
explores her environment, she is grabbed from below by Venus and drawn in. Venus
reemerges in her world, inhabiting her environment unperturbed. Following her
spirit guide, she is gradually intrigued.
(Il) We see the ramp become itself. The waters undulate across its surface: rocks form;
the ramp is alive.
(Ill) As the spirit guides slip into their bodies, Venus and Andromeda meet in a different
world. Venus pushes her desire behind her; Andromeda pleads with Venus. Under
and over the ramp and their chairs, the dancers wrap themselves around each other,
accepting and rejecting their connection.
(IV) Spirit guides and bodies intertwined, Venus chooses Andromeda; Andromeda
accepts Venus. The ramp and spirit guides take them and turn them slowly, inevitably
towards each other.

Act 2
(1) Andromeda and Venus yield to each other. Light and the ramp transport them to a
dream space.
(I) Upon their return, a separation rakes the lovers apart. Andromeda again retreats to
the peak, pulling Venus up after her. The spirit guides separate from their bodies
and observe. Each spying the other in their respective homelands, Andromeda and
Venus seek to reconnect.
(Ill) The spirit guides leave Andromeda's and Venus' bodies. Tossed and turned by the
ramp, Venus and Andromeda have only each other.