Performance by Missing Associates
Oct 23, 1980
Description:
Missing Associates was the performance art partnership project of dancer Lily Eng and multimedia artist Peter Dudar. Their performance at Western Front was composed of three parts and began with a solo improvised dance by Eng. With the absence of a soundtrack, Eng used her body to make contact with the surface of the floor and to generate noise and effect, rooting the performance in a confrontational and physical exploration. Occasionally, she spoke in playful verse (“one two buckle my shoe, three, four, shut the door”) and made animal noises: hissing sounds, low growling, heavy breathing. She mimicked the movement of animals, gesturing like a bird and baring her teeth like a dog. Her martial arts training materialized in various energetic movement sequences.Then, spoken word performer, verse poet, and scat singer Honey Novick performed a solo reading. The evening closed with a collaborative performance titled Missing In Action in which Eng responded to Novick’s vocals with improvised movement.
Video documentation available upon request.
Captions:
- Lily Eng and Honey Novick performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Oct 23, 1980.
- Lily Eng and Honey Novick performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Oct 23, 1980.
- Lily Eng performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Oct 23, 1980.
- Lily Eng performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Oct 23, 1980.
- Honey Novick performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Oct 23, 1980.
- Honey Novick performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Oct 23, 1980.
Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.