16 - 20 March
Caught Hold of Nothing is a new live work by Magnus Westwell, supported by Creative Scotland.
Building on a series of shorter projects and residencies, Magnus is undertaking a development period in Scotland with 5 dancers to create a full length production. The final week of development will take place at Dance Base, and culminates in a sharing of the work-in-progress.
The work unfolds across shifting sonic and choreographic structures, exploring memory, absence, transformation and belonging. Through repetition, failure, and decay in sound, movement, and light, the work appears to collapse before the audience’s eyes, falling apart until it reaches a vulnerable and cathartic state.
Sharing
Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 March | Open Dance Class – 1hr15min | 10:00 – 11:15 | Book Now
Thursday 19 March| 16:00 – 17:00 | £ Free | Book Now
About Magnus Westwell
Magnus Westwell is a Scottish artist and director working with choreography, composition and performance. Spanning the euphoric and desolate, Westwell’s work seeks to understand and express states of cathartic transformation through embodied sound.
Exploring cycles of liminality, transcendence, and absence, Westwell works within ethereal, dream-like worlds, where decaying and generative processes aim to challenge the limits of emotional and physical experience, revealing cascading states of collapse and transformation, and researching the essence of memory, consciousness, fragility, ephemerality, time, and loss. Westwell’s practice unfolds through an ongoing dialogue between movement and sound, where choreography and composition evolve in response to one another. In the studio, sound works are composed alongside the development of choreography, with music emerging from the presence of dancers in space. This reciprocal process allows movement to shape sound as much as sound shapes movement, creating a cyclical exchange between the disciplines. Westwell’s practice has been shaped by time living in Orkney, London, and Glasgow, where they are currently based.
Magnus Westwell is a Sadler’s Wells Young Associate alumni, and their work has reached a diversity of venues, institutions, galleries and festivals across Europe and the UK, including Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London Short Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Britten Pears Arts, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, Cafe OTO, Number 1 Main Road Berlin, Institute of the Arts Barcelona and Amsterdam Dance Event, with digital work published and premiered across Nowness, Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage and FACT Magazine.
Collaborators
Océane Robin – Rehearsal Director and Dancer
Laurie Loads – Lighting Designer
Furmaan Ahmed – Set Designer
Sofi Nowell – Producer
Ghislaine Granger – Exec. Producer
Luke Pell – Dramaturg
Links
Website: www.magnuswestwell.com
Instagram: @magnuswestwell