GABY AGIS & COMPANY
TOUCH UN-SITED

TOUCH UN-SITED is an expansive and stunning new multi-media work created by British choreographer Gaby Agis, in collaboration with American sound artist Brandon LaBelle and a team of architects from the Architectural Association in London: Pasi Makkonen, Jan Clostermann and Michael Weinstock.

The work was orginally developed as the culmination of a ten-year residency by Gaby Agis at the Architectural Association, working with a variety of media including sound, film, video and installation. The resulting full-evening length work was shown at the AA and in the Borough Hall at Greenwich Dance Agency as part of the 'In Its Purest Form' residency.

Gaby is currently developing the work for performance in 2005 with a larger company of five dancers.

Click here to view 5min excerpts of Touch Un-Sited (Quicktime) alternatively download on to your hard drive in ZIP format.

Gaby Agis & Company is a pioneering force in collaborative performance in Britain, working with leading artists of other disciplines in galleries, museums and theatres. Consistently at the forefront of dance performance since its inception in 1985, the company is known for its ability to build increasingly diverse and eclectic audiences by challenging notions of what dance is and who a dance audience can be.

Expert at bringing a sense of the cutting-edge into the mainstream, Gaby Agis recently worked with Turner Prize nominee Isaac Julien and choreographed major fashion campaigns for Prada amongst others. She created many works with the sculptors Kate Blacker and Cornelia Parker, was choreographer of Atom Eyogan's production of Gavin Bryars' opera Doctor Ox's Experiment at the ENO and in 2002 choreographed the Royal Opening of the Millennium Bridge.

Explicit Faith, Agis's most recent company work created in collaboration with acclaimed British Sculptor Phyllida Barlow, played to sell-out houses at LSO St. Luke's in London, July 2004, creating "a new venue on the dance map" (Time Out).

Brandon LaBelle is a sound artist and writer from Los Angeles.
He has performed and exhibited extensively internationally including showing work at the Whitney Museum New York and at the Kawasaki City Museum in Japan. He is also co-editor of Site of Sound: of Architecture and the Ear and Writing Aloud: Sonics of Language and curator of the Beyond Music Series at Beyond Baroque Centre, Los Angeles.

The Architectural Association School of Architecture is not only the oldest architectural school in the UK, but for many years it has also been the most vital: a constantly evolving institution where new ideas are germinated and expressed, which has educated many of the foremost architectural practitioners and has consistently allowed teachers to work in an individualistic way. Over the years, its independence from state and institutional control, at times fiercely fought for, has allowed it to sustain a continual success and renewal. www.aaschool.ac.uk

For further information please contact Joe Moran at Falling Wide
www.fallingwide.org

"Agis has built up a formidable reputation as a dance experimentialist"
The Sunday Times

"A true original on the
British dance scene"
Metro