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HOMMAGE A YVES KLEIN
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As
part of this year’s London International Workshop Festival
theatre nomad ran a workshop that was part recreation, part
stimulation, part live art event, inspired by the ground
breaking Paris performances of Yves Klein in 1960 where
naked bodies were daubed in paint and used to print
impression on canvas. Klein’s Anthropométries of the Blue
Epoch revolutionised painting and performance.
This workshop, led by Luke Dixon, artistic director of both
the Workshop Festival and theatre nomad, Emma Grace, the
filmmaker and performance maker and choreographer Jane
Turner, was for all dancers, visual artists and performance
makers interested in the spontaneous use of their naked body
in the creation of paintings, prints and performance. The
event followed on from the company’s previous exploration of
Klein’s work at the Tristan Bates Theatre in 1997 when the
event resulted in body printed forms of the actors creating
a setting for performances of Twelfth Night. There was live
improvised musical accompaniment on the violin by Alison
Blunt.
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