The love trilogy
2002 / 11'Director:
Shaun Parker & Jo Stone
Choreographer:
Shaun Parker & Jo Stone
Music by:
Can Can Fanfare,
Yo Yo Ma
Photography:
Ninian Donald, Shaun Parker, Kate McIntosh
Editing:
Jo Graell
Performers:
Shaun Parker & Jo Stone
Production:
Shaun Parker Company
AustraliaThe Love Trilogy is a story about a couple in love. Chapter One, Blue Love, is a humorous exploration of the power struggle that exists within relationships but also within ourselves. Chapter Two, Wet Love, is an observation of love, competition, and addiction. The final chapter, Boot Love, tells of a couple that more than just dancing a twisted tango, are grappling for perfection time and time again.
Satirizing and undermining them, the two creators of the trilogy adopt the style of capricious lovers in a film noir for Blue Love, along with a crossbreed of television soap opera and art film. Wet Love evokes the aesthetics of televised sports events, and Boot Love the slow motion aesthetics of certain dance films.
Shaun Parker and Jo Stone live and dance in Australia and Europe. Shaun Parker has worked with Meryl Tankard, Sasha Waltz, Kate Champion, Meredith Monk (as a singer) and Jan Fabre (in the role of Prometheus Bound in the performance-workshop given in Vienna). Jo Stone has danced with the Belgian dance group Les Ballets C de la B, with Vera Mantero in Lisbon, in Constanza Marca's performances in the Schaubuhne in Berlin, in New York, and in Adelaide, in Peter Greenaway's Writing to Vermeer, and the performances she has choreographed have been shown in festivals throughout the world.
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