Video DocumentationThe Colour of SayingAngelica Mesiti (AUS)Performance: March 12-14, 20-21, 2015Place: Lilith Performance Studio, MalmoThe audience entered in groups on various time.The performance run during 2 hours with three different parts in it; a sign language choir that performed Serenade to music, two mature ballet dancers that performed the pas de deux from the Swan lake and two drummers that clapped a improvised piece of music.Dancers: Rolf Hepp, Jette NeumanPercussionists: Viktor Feuk & Tomas ErlandssonChoir: The Sign language choir from Önnestad folk high school.Conductor: Ingegerd Nyborg"- It is only when the higher mind is opened that we really begin to 'hear'"Lilith Performance Studio's year begun with the Australian artist Angelica Mesiti. In her first solo show in Scandinavia she has in collaborated with dancers, musicians, and a sign language choir create The Colour of Saying.In The Colour of Saying Angelica Mesiti uses nonverbal communicationand body language to convey meaning and poetically explores the idea of 'speaking with the hands'. Working with people from a range of backgrounds she looks at 'gestural languages' as the central focus of the work and at the same time, she suggests other ways of relating to movement, music and silence.The audience is invited to move around in an installation of monumental staircases, like sculptures that are both stages and seating, where all become live elements inside an unfolded white landscape.From their body memory, two older ballet dancers 'dance' a pas de deux from the ballet Swan Lake, without music and using just their hands, they are followed by two percussionists who improvises a piece of music without instruments. In silence, a sign language choir 'sings' the choral piece Serenade To Music.These lyrics are the starting point of The Colour of Saying and are a poetic meditation on the impossibility of hearing the 'music of the spheres' made by the movement of the planets while confined to our imperfect physical bodies. "- It is only when the higher mind is opened that we really begin to 'hear'"Angelica Mesiti's (b.1976 in Sydney, Australia, lives and works in Paris and Sydney) video works use cinematic conventions and performance languages as a means of responding to the particularities of a given location, its history, environment and communities. Past projects have focused on traditional music, dance performance and oral story telling traditions.Lilith Performance Studio is an independent arena for practical artistic research, focusing on visual art performance and are as a production space for visual art performance the first of its kind in the world.The Colour of Saying was a co-production with the Cullberg BalletCamera: Petter Pettersson - Lilith Performance StudioEditing: Elin Lundgren- Lilith Performance StudioCourtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz GalleryCast: Lilith Performance StudioTags: The Colour of Saying, Lilith Performance Studio, Angelica Mesiti, Performance, Live art, art, Sign Language, teckenspråk, Serenade to music, The Swan Lake and Svansjön
