For Children’s Games I devised a series of improvisational scores to guided dancers into dancing with the dynamics found in the site during a performance created for a staircase that provides pedestrian access between Brighton Station and a newly developed urban quarter.

Children’s Games was a ten minute-long choreography commissioned by the Brighton Dance Network and shown three times at the Brighton Festival. The production takes its title from two distinct sources; a painting by the Dutch painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1560) and a series of short films by the Belgian/Mexican performance and video artist, Frances Alys (1999-).

Practical explorations were also informed by spatial theorist Henri Lefevbre’s assertion that cities are perceived both internally as felt-experiences and externally as physical, architectural, historic, social and cultural structures that evolve as much through the development of their material as through cultural and intellectual exchanges (Lefebvre 1996). This notion inspired explorations of the use of the dancers’ performative action in a form of spatial play that unites disparate parties and that frames unconditioned phenomena, such as the movement of pedestrians walking up or down the staircase, as integral to the meaning of the choreography.