During the pandemic, Christopher Tandy collaborated with visual artists Michel and Isabelle Wenzel and dancer Milan Kampfer, to experiment on a site-specific improvisation, at a stone quarry near Wuppertal called DeinSteinbruch. Inspired by The Odes of Horace phrase PULVIS ET UMBRA SUMUS, meaning we are but dust and shadow. These words are a reminder of how insignificant we are, even more so post-Pandemic - literally we are just dust, pieces of sand. The setting of the film and its taught physicality encapsulates the words perfectly, bringing them viscerally to life echoing the fact that everything, everyone, everywhere ends.
"Christopher Tandy is a former Diversions National Dance Company Wales dancer who is now a member of the world-renowned Tanztheatre Wuppertal, established by Pina Bausch, who’s company influenced hugely in my formative years as a budding creative in the late 80’s. Watching a film of her piece in 1980 performed at Sadlers Wells, complete with a fully turfed stage, blew my mind as to what Theatre and Dance combined could do." - Marc Rees
Curated by Marc Rees for #PethauBychain