Charles O. Anderson / dance theatre X - view bio
evidence of things (un)said
from World Headquarters
evidence of things (un)said is the first installment of Anderson’s latest project entitled World Headquarters. Set to a soundscore of recorded text (including contributions by renowned poet/performance artist Ursula Rucker), electronic music pieces and ‘found sound’ (fragmented samples, organic minimalism, and random field recordings) evidence of things (un)said is a ritual of invocation, presented as a series of fictional first-person journal entries - conveyed through an interplay of movement and language- by men and women who saw that things were getting worse, prepared themselves and/or their loved ones as best they could, and then survived or perished. As a whole, World Headquarters is theatre-driven dance work that showcases Anderson’s compelling style of fusing contemporary dance forms, physical theatre, and neo-traditional African dance to create politicized and poetic work that reflects upon themes of social change. When it is complete in 2010 World Headquarters Anderson says it will be a series of responses to a fictionalized time and place in our cultural history where notions of social redemption and of salvation to facilitate human agency have radically diminished thereby amplifying impulses driven by fear, greed, resentment, apathy and hatred- a context which denies the possibility of revolutionary transformation yet demands nothing less.
