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Andrew McDonald
"The Cone Dance" (dance performance)
To put on the face-cone or the body-cone is to reshape the body, to make its definition more fluid, to make the body into a new hybrid kind of form. The cone extends the body out to meet and explore and investigate the world around. It can also embrace and draw the world in. As a kind of accessory, its effect is to simplify movement, and it may suggest an innocent and child-like way of moving in the world, and of improvising responses to it. When it meets with sound sources, the cone remakes them as it interferes with them, changing pitch, volume and frequency as the external sounds are taken in. The body in the cone creates a new sound environment in a kind of integrated dance with its landscape of sound. The Œcone-dance‚ is a way for the dancer to communicate with the world onstage, and also with the audience.
Andrew McDonald was born in New Zealand in 1965, and has been living and working in London since 1986. He studied at City and Islington College and the London College of Fashion, before completing his MA at the Royal College of Art, where he specialised in millinery.
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