Pain and I
Sarah Hopfinger.
‘A diversely accessible body of work, Pain and I can be experienced as a live dance performance, digital audio piece, graphic score (digital & publication), or immersive installation. Featuring playful choreography, intimate poetic text, and new classical music composition. This compelling autobiographical work asks what can pain teach us? Audiences are invited to reflect on what it means to care for our bodies, ourselves, and each other in times of personal and collective pain.’
Project Credits:
Creator, Choreographer, Performer - Sarah Hopfinger (she/her), Music and Sound Composition - Alicia Jane Turner (they/them), Graphic Score and Installation Design - Michaela Pointon (she/her) & Rachel O'Neill (she/her), Images Brian Hartley (he/him), Lead Project Dramaturgy & Movement Direction - Laura Bradshaw (she/her), Dramaturgy & Additional Sound Work - Jer Reid (he/him), Producer (Made In Scotland, Fringe) - Laura Fisher (they/she), Producer (Scottish Tour) - Stories Untold, Robyn Jancovich-Brown (she/her), Production Assistants - Nell O'Hara (she/her) & Shona McKay (they/them), Press - Joy Parkinson (she/her), Lighting Designer and Production Manager - Michaela Fee (she/her), Stage Manager (Fringe) - Lucy May Wilson (she/they), Stage Manager (Scottish Tour) - Chris Gorman (he/him), BSL Interpreter - Rachel Amey (she/her), Film Media - Lucas Chih-Peng Kao (he/him), Images - Tiu Makkonen (they/them).
Dancing With Pain: Insights Into Ecological Pain
Sarah Hopfinger.
‘The performance research involves creatively collaborating with artists and community members who live with chronic pain. Through this project, new performance and dance methods will be developed which are inclusive of diverse people with chronic pain, and an original dance theatre piece will be publicly presented, performed by people with chronic pain. The research will create new interdisciplinary practice-based knowledge by working uniquely across the diverse fields: performance studies, choreography, intergenerational practice, pain philosophies, ecological theory.’
Project Credits:
Creator, Choreographer, Performer – Sarah Hopfinger (she/her)
Funded by: Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant.
Glasgow Art Map.
Managed by Caitlin Merrett King and Max Slaven at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow. Glasgow Art Map is risograph printed by Sunday’s Print Service in Glasgow and part of Art Maps (Scotland) CIC.
