Louis-Philippe Demers (Canada) / Biography
DEVOLUTION

In Devolution we are acknowledging the robots as machines and in doing so we are also exploring the mechanical, machine-like function of the human body and also the zoomorphic potential of bodies. By distorting the body away from an upright pedestrian orientation and challenging the Cartesian view of the body, we have been trying to posit humans as animals, which of course we are. Devolution works with the dancers on exploring choreographic relationships that respond to ecosystem processes: territoriality, parasitism, predation, symbiosis, senescence, birth, death and growth.

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION: Devolution (10:15), AU/SG, in English, color, stereo, DVD, 2007
PHOTO CREDITS: Louis-Philippe Demers, Garry Stewart and Australian Dance Theatre. Devolution, 2006. © Adelaide Bank 2006 Adelaide Festival of Arts