Site responsive aerial dance performance aboard Light Vessel 21. A collaboration between LV21 and Scarabeus Aerial Theatre offering an immersive visual and aural experience.
LV21 is a light vessel, a floating lighthouse, historically set to aid safe navigation at sea, to serve as a visual landmark and a place of refuge in case of need.
Boats are referred to as female, but traditionally women on board bring bad luck! With a whole female creative crew, ANCHORED subverts outmoded paradigms and brings to life the softness and tenderness of caring for each other aboard this historical vessel.
The aerial performers, through a highly visual and impactful choreography enhanced by an atmospheric soundtrack and a bespoke lighting design, inhabit various outdoor upper deck and infrastructure elements of the ship.
As the Midsummer sun sets beyond the horizon, they create a series of moving images and sequences at height, aimed at broadening and shifting conventional perspectives, using the unique features of the historic vessel.
The narrative and choreography are inspired by the functions and day to day tasks to be accomplished by the crew aboard the vessel. Rescuing sailors at risk, communicating through marine semaphore signals, observing the weather up on the crow’s nest, switching on the lantern light, sharing food and drink together amongst the crew.
As in a Pina Bausch choreography, the mundane is amplified and transformed, it becomes abstract and develops a rarefied beauty.
A collaboration between LV21 and Scarabeus Aerial Theatre, ANCHORED is a site responsive outdoor performance inhabiting the body and soul of the vessel while creating lineage with her surroundings. The performance aims to provoke surprise and questioning, sadness and joy. To offer an immersive visual and aural experience to the audience viewing from ashore. To create an immediacy in their response. To leave a legacy in people’s heart and memory.
Event time
9.45pm for a 10pm show start. Finishing at approx.10.20pm.
Travel Info
Parking will be provided within the Historic Dockyard Chatham, please make your way from Western Avenue through the security gate to the Helipad parking. Your registration number is required in advance to provide access through the barrier at the security office.
Image Credit: Scarabeus, Powerflex – Mark Morreau, Grand Turk
