Colette Sadler: The Violet Hour

In the organizer's words:

Colette Sadler's new dance piece is set in a dark and mutable landscape that materializes like a shifting apparition from the beginning or end of time. In a series of choreographic episodes characterized by an uncanny fusion of movement, song and digital imagery, The Violet Hour is about the pursuit of a state of transformative hybridity with the elusive idea of nature. Moving between real and digital planes, the performance proposes a surreal exploration of the relationship between humans and their environment, expanding the notion of how we are both affected by and implicated in the changing ecologies around us. In an increasingly precarious world, The Violet Hour proposes a connection between the landscape around us and the inner landscape of the imagination.

Colette Sadler is a dancer and choreographer. Sadler's work operates at the intersection of dance, sculpture and digital art. Her interdisciplinary performances often explore the relationship between the human and the non-human, between real and virtual spaces. In her performances, she stages bodies and identities in moments of transformation, in which transitions between the real and virtual worlds are created using the means of fiction. Since 2016, she has been developing Present Futures, a cycle of curated events exploring themes of speculative futures and post-humanism in collaboration with the Centre of Contemporary Art Glasgow UK.