Sarah Cunliffe

Sarah Cunliffe's study will look at the idea of hysterical body using the iconic dance film ‘The Red Shoes' (1948) and the performing bodies within it as a basis of exploration. Investigating how the body performs to excess in scenes of melodrama and re-presenting these actions on screen - distilling the performance to the essence of movement alone - the essential movement will be re-positioned and re-located to the present day.

Sarah underwent a study period in the Picture This Atelier in summer 08, supported by Portland Green Cultural Projects.

Aikaterini Gegisian

Aikaterini will be developing a new film that explores documentary traditions through the juxtaposition of news stories to recordings of the regeneration of urban environments and which questions how perceptions of reality, space and time is transformed by the process of globalisation. Based on an obsessive collection over the past few years of news articles found either in newspapers or over the internet and an increasing fascination with the expansion of urban networks, the film will link the story of the deportation of the indigenous inhabitants of the island Diego Garcia with footage from the construction and landscaping of the Palm Jumeriah Islands in Dubai.

The Varsity of Maneuvers in collaboration with Kayle Brandon

Varsity of Maneuvers create interdisciplinary work that uses movement as a physical and conceptual starting point in their work. Their projects can be framed as physical maneuvers that seek to cut through social and spatial fabrics of diverse lived environments. For Small Wonders, Varsity of Maneuvers will be working on Way of the Goat, a documentary project centred around their efforts into researching movement and climbing skills of feral goats in Cheddar and Lynton with the objective to learn from them how to defy vertigo.

It seems to be the goats' nimble footwork that enables them to move on almost vertical surfaces as if they were horizontal pathways. Through close observation and through a physical approach, Varsity of Maneuvers will seek to gain an understanding of the animals' movements on the steep cliffs.

For more information and to follow the development of the project, go to www.way-of-the-goat.blogspot.com