In a small one-room apartment high above the snow covered streets of Berlin a man is dreaming of the open lawns of his childhood. Beneath the wallpaper are the shadows of former tenants. In the walls and in his clothes there is a darker past he is trying to repress, but it keeps crawling out.
Accompanied with a live score composed and performed by Iain Grandage, lawn was originally conceived in Berlin in collaboration with Sasha Waltz & Guests. With the support of the Tanztage Festival and the Sophiensaele three collaborators, Gavin Webber, Grayson Millwood and Vincent Crowley, explore what one reviewer described as “the exquisite horror of banality.” (Realtime, 2005). The work was completed in Australia and premiered at Brisbane’s Powerhouse in 2005.
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