MULTIFORM
multiform draws from the work and writing of abstract painter, Mark Rothko. The work is both love letter to perpetual motion and testament to body magic, as Acorn builds hypnotic cycles of movement repeated ad-infinitum. In multiform a singular body is both mechanism and magician; a perpetually pulsating, thrashing and undulating energy object. multiform compels us toward continued, exhaustive watching, dissolving the boundaries between abstract form and its containment through choreography.
Created and performed by Amanda Acorn
Lighting Design by Paul Chambers, Sound by Hoover Party and Tim Hecker, Rehearsal direction Kate Nankervis
Supported by Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation
Images by Dhalia Katz, Tim Nguyen and Francesca Chudnoff
“ …magnificent, elegance and corporeal courage..” – The Dance Current
“The remarkable discipline of Acorn’s work refocuses the viewer on a similar limitation, as she circles to the same spot where she began. She iterates the uniqueness of each human body, the circle of time, and the effort we expend in movement. Acorn herself becomes a propelled human heart, beating, making us think, making us want to move out of stillness.” – Evidance Radio
presentation history 2014 – Flowchart, Summerworks Performance Festival, Toronto / Annual Alberta Dance Festival, Calgary, 2016 – The Festival of New Dance, St John’s, 2017 – Gold Saucer Studio, Vancouver / Bright Nights, The Citadel, Toronto, 2018 – PushOff, Push Festival, Vancouver