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it's aching like birds

Length in minutes: 10 minutes 56
Year of production: 2001
Choreographer: Lin Hixon/Goat Island
Director: Lucy Baldwyn
Executive Producers: Linda Jasper, South East Dance; Caroline Freeman, Lighthouse

Shooting Format: unknown

Screening Format: Beta Sp PAL (originally filmed on 16mm)

Watch an excerpt » | QuickTime movie; 1.67 Mb

it’s aching like birds draws on a very American sense of landscape and space. Through fragments of movement and story Goat Island and Lucy Baldwyn have explored the curious dislocation of memory as four characters perform ‘postcards’, remembering a world they learned to love. The newly devised choreography reflects the funny ache at the heart of memory.

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