Small Possessions Daily is a series of choreographed dialogues influenced by the English Baroque suite Consort in Fower Parts by Exeter Composer Matthew Locke. Experimenting with use of Locke’s ‘bundles of movements’ and his strong use of Rubato, the piece mixes themes of psychoanalysis and hysteria with images reminiscent of surrealist film.

Dance Number 2:

“There is one thing that a murderer can count on chief inspector, that the account of each witness can differ radically from the accounts of the others, even though all are present at the same occasion.” There is a dummy and a ventriloquist but we don’t know which is which. They are dressed in different versions of the same clothes. Maybe there is a father/child and mother/child relationship between them. There is lip-synching. We hear the story of the relationship between dummy and ventriloquist in the differences between the voices on the soundtrack and the live voices. Stuttering laughing lisp crying traces. They are demonstrating to the audience how cleverly they can disguise who is speaking when in actual fact one of them doesn’t have a voice at all.

Dance Number 4:

Very thin spotlight from above the man steps into it a piece at a time. Light gives his face shadows that hint at ghoulish. Maybe he starts by slightly shifting his face in the light to change his appearance. Dead and alive. He begins to find this funny. In fact he tells the story like its a very funny joke. When he gets to the bit where he’s finding his way home - The moon appears.

Simultaneously:

She stands hanging/floating between two worlds. Excruciatingly slowly, as if being pulled like the tide by the moon, the woman sinks to the floor. She is dying. (a Poison). When she is lying dead on the floor we realise that all the time there has been a red liquid slowly dripping from the ceiling next to her making a big pool on the floor. She is now lying in the red pool and the liquid is dripping/staining onto her shirt.

Collaborators:

Paula Crutchlow - writer/director, Cat Radford – devising performer, Henning Hegland – devising performer , John Levack Drever - composer.