A special one-off performance created in collaboration between Florence Peake and Scottish Dance Theatre, will take place in the Picture Gallery at Hospitalfield, as part of Florence Peake’s exhibition Your Meaning Not Your Materiality. Together with Peake, dancers from the company will devise this new work in the days running up to the performance specifically for the site. Tickets are free but limited, book here.

Your Meaning Not Your Materiality (YMNYM) examines themes of loss and the human desire to grasp the intangible in the face of grief through sculptural forms, painting, community collaboration and performance. In this one-off event, these themes will be further explored through collective movement, with choreography developed between Florence Peake and Scottish Dance Theatre. Texts and vocal arrangements will form a starting point for the process; becoming written scores in response to the objects in the Picture Gallery.

The performance will consider the absence of light, based on the dance practice ‘dancing in the dark’. Similarly to the sculptural works that make tangible the area between bodies during various forms of embrace or touch, seeking to contain the physical chasm in an object, the performance will explore absence of light and darkness as a container to hold space, highlighting the layers of meaning that transitory spaces can hold. In the performance, the distance held transforms into an area of presence, energy transference and chemistry.

For people that are blind or visually impaired there will be live audio description available, please let us know if you require this when booking.