40 Minutes
40 Minutes is a collaboration with Janet Smith, choreographer and Artistic Director at the Scottish Dance Theatre, 1997-2012.
The work was inspired by the New York Grand Central Station’s oral history project where a sound booth was placed in the station to record information from people’s lives for 40 continuous minutes. Scottish Dance Theatre’s 40 Minutes investigates the information and memories people choose to reveal from years of life experience within this specific time frame.
40 Minutes was a touring dance production for the Scottish Dance Theatre.
Choreographer – Janet Smith
Video Artist - Pernille Spence
Composer - Christopher Benstead
40 Minutes
40 Minutes is a collaboration with Janet Smith, choreographer and Artistic Director at the Scottish Dance Theatre, 1997-2012.
The work was inspired by the New York Grand Central Station’s oral history project where a sound booth was placed in the station to record information from people’s lives for 40 continuous minutes. Scottish Dance Theatre’s 40 Minutes investigates the information and memories people choose to reveal from years of life experience within this specific time frame.
40 Minutes was a touring dance production for the Scottish Dance Theatre.
Choreographer – Janet Smith
Video Artist - Pernille Spence
Composer - Christopher Benstead
Getting okay with not being ok, that things are not okay
A short film by Irvine & Spence.
Getting okay with not being ok, that things are not okay represents an exploration into ideas of precarity and collapse, moments of the not yet happening as well as irreversible destruction. How do we learn to live in uncertainty when the future holds promise of breakdown? We embrace the absurdity, the moments of lightness and humour.
We are actively trying to get OK with not being OK that things are not OK.
Getting okay with not being ok, that things are not okay was funded by the RSA Residencies for Scotland 2022 and was awarded the Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film at the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival.
