The Making of Doubt

Colette Sadler

This new work by Colette Sadler marks the culmination of an extended period of development and collaboration between Tramway and the artist / choreographer. Over the past few years Tramway has provided Colette with a platform on which to test her developing theories concerning movement and the visual rendition of dance as performance.

Here, the canvas broadens as she creates a new work on Tramway’s larger Tramway 1 stage. The Making of Doubt premiered at the Spring Dance Festival in Utrecht, Holland and arrives at Tramway after an extended period of research supported by European choreographic centres in Scotland, Belgium and Germany. Colette now moves the choreography from solo to multiple dancers and their simulacra. Working with a live soundtrack from Newcastle’s near mythical *Zoviet*France* and life size representations of the human form, Colette explores the realm between what is real and what is simulation. What happens when we mimic the movements of objects, which are designed to mimic us?

Sadler, one of Scotland’s most intriguing artists has always pushed at the edges of our perceptions of what constitutes choreographic movement. Now based partly in Berlin this is a welcome opportunity to experience her profound vision as it takes shape on stage.

“The Making of Doubt places the human beside a copy of itself. Dolls have historically played a central role in how we construct notions of human identity and in this work are a starting point in considering how we integrate the notion of this ‘impossible spectral body’ as an alien presence within society.”

Colette Sadler

The Making of Doubt

Fri 9 - Sat 10 May 2008

8:00pm

Tramway 1

£10 / £6