The Twenty-Second Seventh [2019]
Questioning the spatial and temporal location and (dis)orientation of the body, The Twenty-Second Seventh parallels choreography with cartographic and cognitive processes. This work expands ongoing research that investigates conditions and causality to understand how maps are experienced by their maker, performer, and viewer. Structures of precision are overlaid with the unraveling of event to build systems of demarcation. These performative mapping practices allow for the careful measurement of the here to define the significance of the now.
...a sense of place, a sense of being at home in a town or city, grows as we become accustomed to it and learn to know its peculiarities. It is my own belief that a sense of place is something that we ourselves create in the course of time. It is the result of habit or custom. But others disagree. They believe that a sense of place comes from our response to features which are already there— either a beautiful natural setting or well-designed architecture. They believe that a sense of place comes from being in an unusual composition of spaces and forms - natural or man-made.
John Brinckerhoff Jackson, A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
The Twenty-Second Seventh, a site-sensitive work, premiered in a five-story atrium of the Universitätsbibliothek der TU/UdK Berlin on the 11. and 12. December 2019. The audience was asked to view the work from the first or second floor, though an option was also offered to be seated on the ground floor. Still images from the performance can be found here.
The Twenty-Second Seventh is a final graduate presentation for the MA Solo Dance Authorship program of Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Dance Berlin (HZT).
Concept + Performance: Jason Corff
-in collaboration with-
Sound: Liam Byrne
Film: Effy Grey
Mentors: Christopher Roman, Andrew Wass
Tutor: Rhys Martin
This 12-minute film is projected onto the floor of the performance space beginning at 10:15
Images: Effy Grey