Isadora Speaks, 1993

video, sound, 2 speakers, slide projection, projector, wood box, soil, grapevine, maple seedlings

The videotape was shot in the woods on the Bruce Trail by Twenty Mile Creek in Jordan, ON with a 8mm Sony Handcam attached to my back while I danced. The audio was text excerpts from Isadora Speaks, ed. Franklin Rosemont, City Light Books, San Francisco. (“My will is to free the art of dancing…..And all art must be intimately connected with nature at its roots….If my art is symbolic of any one thing, it is symbolic of the freedom of woman….) The image of a spine was projected on maple seedlings planted in soil in the wood box.
-ec.2012

This work followed research on Isadora Duncan which I carried out for the outdoor performance Hortus Imaginum and part of a body of work concerned with the relationship between nature and culture.

Exhibited
Moving Pictures Festival, John Spotton Cinema, Toronto, 2012.