BROKEN BIRD

of COHEN Steven

SOUTH AFRICA, 2001, 00:09:40

Production : COHEN Steven, Elephant.Lion.Unicorn
Genre : Filmed action, Performance
Keyword : Africa, Allegory, Performance, Society

Summary :
BROKEN BIRD is an improvised video performance exploring the balance between restriction and liberty. Within the constraints of a caged head and a re-defined vocabulary of movement due to the ostrich-foot pointe shoe, the artist's struggle for freedom is poignant and familiar. Like an earthbound bird on a traffic-island full of pigeons, or a graceful firebird in a grounded aeroplane in a scrapyard, the artist grapples with realising the fanstasy of liberty, and finds success within failure ... "Ironically, it is when I work at being free that I find the meaning of freedom" (Elu) Improvised choreograpy & interpretation : Elu

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