Renature - 2008

By Wayne McGregor.

Human beings in their driven pursuit of evolution have denatured nature. Through a deliberate series of fragmented and incomplete narratives I have attempted to create a savagely un-natural piece that in some ways denatures the body itself and frustrates some of the conventions of dance. Inspired by a desolately constructed, artificial waste-land, seven dancers career through Karen Tanaka’s evocative electro-acoustic pieces ‘Questions of Nature’ towards her rhythmically propulsive and fiendishly technical Techno Etudes for solo piano. Submerged in this violent and somehow final musical landscape the physical and the environmental struggle to recapture their original temper, in a constant challenge to renature.