Moving bodies

I experiment with movement in live performances, which I record only when I finish with an idea.
My most ambitious work to date, and still in progress, is a series of performative dances to songs from a range of musical traditions and styles.
The first two stills below are from ‘Allsouls’: a dance to R. Strauss’s, 'Allerseelen'. The choreography uses elements of male strip routines to explore the song’s main theme, death-transcending love-desire, from the perspective of the dead beloved who calls out his lover from the grave. The performance is intended to be both sad and funny, but also a direct response to the unabashed quality of the music.
The second set of stills is from 'Polifemo': a dance to N. A. Porpora's 'Alto Giove'. The choreography combines different idioms to portray Polyphemus in prayer. He stoically accepts of his exile but laments his punishment. Though a monster, he is as sensitive to beauty as gods and mortals, yet he has to pay for it by loss of his sight. In the end all defiance and lament disappear in a feverish acceptance of and submission to the will of the father of gods.
The final set is from another series, in which different repetitive movements are used to illustrate the five virtues; the still is from 'Diligence'.