SHEENA McGRANDLES
  • PROJECTS
    • DAWN : A Musical On Reproduction
    • DON'T MOTHER ME!
    • FLUSH (2020)
    • TONIGHT (2019)
    • MELANCHOLÍA (2019)
    • FREEDOM LANDSCAPES (2018)
    • FIGURED (2018)
    • JADED (2017)
    • BOUNTY (2016)
    • INTERVENTION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2016)
    • Dialogue : Renate Bertlemann (2015)
    • Man Power Mix (2015)
    • EXHIBITION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2015)
    • New Materialism (2015)
    • Man must eat (2015)
    • STEVE & SAM (2014)
    • True Balls (2013)
    • Eee Series (2011-2012)
    • Meatbook (2012)
    • walking & words (2010)
    • GROWING A MAN (2009)
  • NEWS
  • TEACHING
    • SENSATION WORKSHOP
    • WHO'S THE PARTY NOW?
  • CURATION
    • LAVA
    • MOVE
    • OBJECTS, ANIMALS & PERVERSIONS
    • RUG
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • DIS Magazine
    • ON SLOWNESS
    • INSTITUTIONALISED BODY
    • AS IF ITS JUST ABOUT TO HAPPEN
    • Feedback Lab 2
    • Feedback Lab 1
    • Writing : RIC ALLSOPP
  • ABOUT
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT
  • CV

FLUSH 


FLUSH unfolds in a reduced set-up: 3 performers on a stage, framed by a series of 5 wall elements. It is based on a carefully assembled movement vocabulary that takes inspiration from ubiquitous video-editing techniques. It combines the laborious task of performing live slow motion, rewind, fast edits and endless repetitions with the considered exploration of composition and non-linear narration in order to create a ‘landscape play’ coined in 1935 by Gertrude Stein. FLUSH relies on a highly technical, articulate and stylized composition drawing on the formal ordering principles of juxtaposition, simultaneity, multiplicity and repetition also to be found in the ‘plays’ from Stein. It is a study on radical temporaries and illogical intimacies that proposes various articulations and modes of temporality, even going as far to evoke a lesbian time / aesthetic. 

Bodies, temporal and physical manifestations will be the explicit material in the construction of the landscapes. With a strong emphasis on the quotidian FLUSH wrestles with the impossibility of stopping time  in order to simultaneously move it  to see everything that is there behind a gesture, form the mundane to the spectacle. FLUSH makes apparent the tiny details that are hidden in situations, the ambivalences and notions between actions, subtexts, the hesitations and irruptions

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Photos: ©Michiel Keuper

​Concept and direction: Sheena McGrandles
​Performed by: Sheena McGrandles, Annegret Schalke and Ewa Dziarnowska
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Sound: Stellan Veloce
Text: Mila Pavicevic and Sheena McGrandles 
Dramaturgy: Mila Pavicevic and  Thomas Schaupp 
​Stage and costume: Michiel Keuper and Martin Sieweke

Supported by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Siobhan Davies Dance London and Goethe Institute London.. With thanks to Tanzfabrik Berlin 

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  • PROJECTS
    • DAWN : A Musical On Reproduction
    • DON'T MOTHER ME!
    • FLUSH (2020)
    • TONIGHT (2019)
    • MELANCHOLÍA (2019)
    • FREEDOM LANDSCAPES (2018)
    • FIGURED (2018)
    • JADED (2017)
    • BOUNTY (2016)
    • INTERVENTION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2016)
    • Dialogue : Renate Bertlemann (2015)
    • Man Power Mix (2015)
    • EXHIBITION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2015)
    • New Materialism (2015)
    • Man must eat (2015)
    • STEVE & SAM (2014)
    • True Balls (2013)
    • Eee Series (2011-2012)
    • Meatbook (2012)
    • walking & words (2010)
    • GROWING A MAN (2009)
  • NEWS
  • TEACHING
    • SENSATION WORKSHOP
    • WHO'S THE PARTY NOW?
  • CURATION
    • LAVA
    • MOVE
    • OBJECTS, ANIMALS & PERVERSIONS
    • RUG
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • DIS Magazine
    • ON SLOWNESS
    • INSTITUTIONALISED BODY
    • AS IF ITS JUST ABOUT TO HAPPEN
    • Feedback Lab 2
    • Feedback Lab 1
    • Writing : RIC ALLSOPP
  • ABOUT
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT
  • CV