STAIN
My work aims to create a negative of my previous explorations into the feeling of energy and life contained in a pre lived room. To create the negative I looked at a white modern environment, freshly painted, bare and lacking of life and a sense of individual. The space is dead, unoccupied, stark and stale. My movement exploration is to leave an imprint in this sterile environment, to uncomfortably live in a box that lacks imagination and to stain this crisp white environment by exploring textures created by to room around me.
CREDITS
Pieces For Small Spaces
Lucy Guerin Inc.
2 - 6 December 2009
14 Batman St, West Melbourne
Direction & Choreography: Benjamin Hancock
Music: Ryoji Ikeda
Costume Design: Chloe Greaves
Performer: Benjamin Hancock
Production Manager: Bluebottle 3 - Frog and Rose
Producer: Sarah Rodigari
Lighting Designer: Bluebottle 3 - Frog and Rose
Images: Byron Perry
VIDEO
Video: Nick Sommerville
AWARDS
Short Sweet Dance Melbourne
Outstanding Male Dancer
Benjamin Hancock
STAIN
WRITING
"For many, myself included, the highlight of the evening was Benjamin Hancock’s solo, Stain. Performed on a small rectangular rug under a single hanging lamp, and in a crazy white leotard that looked like a piece of modern architecture, this was easily the most original work. The soundtrack was minimal, as was Hancock’s robotic movement, which teasingly displayed, without exploiting, his incredible facility. Hancock’s intensity and focus gave weight and meaning to the tiniest finger twitches. Stain was mesmerising from start to finish."
Short Sweet + Dance Melbourne
HISTORY
2012 Mona Foma Festival, Faux Mo, The Grand Poohbar, Hobart Tasmania Curated by Supple Fox
2010 Short Sweet Dance – Chapel off Chapel Melbourne
