Feedack re ‘blue’ – from Artist Dee Shaw:
“The presence of Angela’s dress was the first sound that I heard shushing across the floor, satin against concrete, this set the tone for a silent elegant start to ” Blue”
The large space became the outer body which encompassed her own and this set up a dialogue between performer and surroundings. The windows, a striking aspect of the space became the conversation piece between the two elements, a need to open them and to let in air and to bring in the outside became part of the ritual.
A single chair was the only furniture. Angela sat silently her reverie broken only by the raucous cries of seagulls which she turned to acknowledge striking up a conversation with the outside.
After crawling on all fours she tries frantically to rub the dust off her hands. In her red satin dress this became reminiscent of Lady Macbeth trying to clean away her sins of murder, this changed the mood of the piece. The second prop ( lengths of sky blue net ) she wound around herself displaying a reference to the virgin Mary, two polar opposites of the myth of womanhood. The finale was the unfurling of the net through the window and into the the courtyard below.
A beautiful experience, where simplicity unfolded into introspection.”
