Bird

Bird has evolved as a response to the tactile architecture of Clarence Mews studio in London with its unusual overhead view, and is choreographed and performed by Nikki Tomlinson and Lucy Cash. Simple, abstract movements drawn from disparate sources including Josef Albers' Cables, aerial photography, ballet and geometry, are layered to allow the possibility of stories, or shards of stories unresolved. The performers attract and repel each other, drawn, like magnets, to each other and to the audience looking down on the space from above.

For InsideOutside, curated by Caroline Salem and Ed Frith of Moving Architecture for Architecture Week 2007, Bird took the form of a moving installation, with each audience experiencing a different version of the piece.

"there was an irrational desire to jump down to you, something to do with your reaching up and jumping up too. Very powerful on a dreamlike level." (Emily Young, filmmaker)