Drama and Dance

Sharon Lockhart - Noa Eshkol

From 22 Nov 2012 to 23 Feb 2013

23 Nov-24 Feb. Los Angeles-based artist Sharon Lockhart has based her installation around the unique contribution made to the world of dance by the avant-garde Israeli dance composer and textile artist Noa Eshkol, who died in 2007.

Eshkol revolutionised dance and movement notation by using numbers and symbols to record movement in a grid format. Her system provided dancers and choreographers with a platform in which to compose and notate dance, much in the same way as a composer writes music.

Lockhart utilises the main elements of Eshkol's practice, incorporating dance, theory, artistic practice, and conceptual strategy into a series of interrelated works.

This is the second exhibition to take place in the Thyssen–Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) at its new venue in the Augarten space outside the city centre.

Tues–Sun 12.00-19.00