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Choreographer Rosemary Butcher got her start experimenting at the Judson Church, New York City crucible of post-modern dance, and in the three decades since has created performances that transform everyday movements into intense, arresting forms. Butcher approached Martin to make a film of her recent piece, Lapped, Translated Lines, which was born of discussions with dancer Elena Giannotti about Darwin's writings on animal morphology. Suggestive of a beast vigilantly traversing its territory, and secondarily of Butchers' restless memories of her New York history, the dance called for a similarly doubled physical and ephemeral manifestation. Butcher wanted to project Martin's commissioned film alongside the live performance, creating a hybrid that would span physical action and psychological presence. Martin, curious whether she could carve into the space of the tightly compact, almost caged, choreography, chose to emphasise the camera's mediation: masked by a gridded structure, or ... Written by Daria Martin

Lapped, Translated Lines Cast

• Elena Giannotti