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Inspired by the effects of the physical, natural world on the imaginative subconscious, “The Violet Hour” is a new dance piece set within a dark and mutable landscape, materializing like a shifting apparition from the beginning or end of time. Through a series of choreographic episodes shaped by an uncanny coalescence of movement, song, and digital imagery, “The Violet Hour” is about striving for a state of transformative hybridity with the elusive idea of nature. Moving between real and digital realms, it proposes a surreal exploration of the relationship between humans and our surroundings, stretching the notion of how we are both influenced by and implicated in the changing ecologies around us.  In an increasingly precarious world, “The Violet Hour” proposes a defiant convergence with the frequencies that exist between the landscape around us and the inner landscape of the imagination.

Colette Sadler is a dancer and choreographer. Sadler’s work operates at the intersection of dance, sculpture and digital art. Her interdisciplinary performances often explore the relationship between the human and the non-human, and the relationship between real and virtual spaces. In her performances, she stages bodies and identities in moments of transformation in which transitions between real and virtual realms are created by means of fiction. Since 2016 she has been developing Present Futures, a cycle of curatorial events exploring themes of speculative futures and post-humanism in collaboration with The Centre of Contemporary Art Glasgow UK.