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Performance in Transit is a project to advance creativity in music theatre. Investigations centre on space and its simulation in live performance through the intersection of music with visual art, dance and mathematics. The writings of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges afford a fertile reference point.
The project was launched in 2005 with dt:remix which established ground for further exploration of the relationships between sound, image and body, virtual and actual in real-time performance.
In 2006 the Gulbenkian Foundation awarded a grant towards early stage research for a major new work. Real-time, live-space dialogues with mathematician Marcus du Sautoy investigate what a mathematical mind can bring to the creation of a multidimensional performance space through music, movement, image and text.
Borges' enigmatic and multi-faceted text 'The Library of Babel' imagines the universe as a library, one composed of an infinite number of hexagonal galleries, containing an infinite number of books, none of which is identical and many of which are faulty copies of other books. The library is vast, exhilarating and overwhelming. The workshops have explored the potential of 'The Library of Babel' text for generating productive contexts and scenarios for creative exploration.
project participants: sculptor Kate Allen, choreographer Carol Brown, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, composer Dorothy Ker, architect Sophia Psarra, Andrew Sparling (musician), Marina Collard (dancer), members of Collective Impulses (UoS improvisation group), PhD and MA students at Roehampton University.