The Waves [2011]
A group of young females, maybe orphans, flock en mass uphill from the seashore, they climb and jump like animals, they dance like humans, they carry each other and they are also growing up. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves that documents the life time of six characters whilst each new chapter begins by detailing the passing of a single day, sun rise to sunset, in a seaside landscape. The scenes are calm, pensive, sustained, bringing attention to the natural landscape and the human actions within it, the waves perpetually wash in memories and thoughts. Yet no sign of urgency, only time passing as the migration ascends. We present another version of reality where humans know instinctually to move upward out of harms way before the oceans begin to surge: preparing like birds for the oncoming storm.
一群年輕的女性，也許是孤兒，從海邊爬上山來，像動物一樣爬起來跳起來，像人一樣跳舞，相互牽著走，也長大了。受弗吉尼亞·伍爾夫的小說“浪潮”的啟發，它記錄了六個人物的生活時間，而每一個新的章節都是從一天的細節開始，在海邊的風景中曬太陽升起日落。 場景平靜，沉思，持續，引起人們對自然景觀和人類行為的關注，波浪在記憶和思想中不斷地被洗滌。然而，沒有緊急的跡象，只有隨著移民的升遷而過去。我們提出了另一個現實版本，在海洋開始洶湧澎湃之前，人類本能地認識到這一現實是從危險的方向向上移動：為迎面而來的風暴做像鳥一樣的準備。
Christina Jensen specialised in site-specific performance and improvisation - she has choreographed, taught and performed in Hong Kong and Europe with solo and group projects. She is honoured to have worked with many great artists and groups such as, Elisa Barucchierie / ResExtensa, Sara Gebran, Baktruppen, Happy Gorilla Dance Company, and Martin Vognsen with whom she won the Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award in 2011.
