From an English Factory to the Streets of Detroit

[Mike]

Titled 'From an English Factory to the Streets of Detroit, Disrupting Space with Dance ' this article on the Hyperallergic website reports on an interesting project

 

' Brown’s piece is a film shot in Stoke-on-Trent’s abandoned Spode factory, once the economic powerhouse of the blue-collar working town, and maker of the iconic Blue Willow dinnerware that is collected worldwide. The short weaves together Stoke-on-Trent’s economic collapse and resulting industrial ruins, and ends with a kind of redemption by way of Northern Soul dancing.'

https://hyperallergic.com/288535/from-an-english-factory-to-the-streets-of-detroit-disrupting-space-with-dance/

Edited April 6, 2016 by mike
re-worded

[jam66]

Good read. I also liked the video, don't know who the artist Clhoe Briown had been speaking to or if those thoughts were to the forefront when she made the dancing in the boardroom. If you watch the video you'll remember that tantalising bit with the music floating in the air just out of reach and the way some sounds just floated in the atmosphere at some venues. Well worth a read and well worth a watch.