In the creation by acclaimed Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin, seven performers wander through a field of moving pendulums, each consisting of a suspended bell that rings, pulsates and hums. As the pendulums whizz through the air in visceral waves of sound and light, music composed by percussive artist Matthias Schack-Arnott is driven by the speed and force of their movement.
The artists activate the bells: they hurl, catch, stop, spin, dodge and resist swinging in a dance with gravity. The power and vulnerability of the human body is revealed through the attempts to control the unstoppable rise and fall of the pendulum’s weight, where the rise and fall evoke time as a continuum stretching behind us and in front of us, situating our bodies in a fleeting moment on Earth.