The
Fluent Heart
Dr Philip Kilner and Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan,
heart imaging specialists; Wayne McGregor, Random Dance Company; Sir
John Tavener, London
Production Award: £110 000
This is a collaboration between composer Sir John Tavener, heart imaging
specialist Dr Philip Kilner and Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, heart imaging
specialists, and choreographer Wayne McGregor towards the
creation of an original work on the theme of the heart. The music and
dance production will be supplemented by smaller-scale scientific-artistic
presentations, and by dissemination of material in recorded, written
and illustrated forms. Images and sounds of the living heart will inform
the
work, in which the heart is to represent a symbol of humanity and the
divine, as well as an organ central to the life of each individual.
Image:
Drawings by Philip Kilner of paths of flow through the heart, showing
the ventricles relaxed (left) and contracting (right). Blood from the
body and lungs returns to each side of the heart whose cycles of relaxation
and contraction propel blood on to the lungs and body, respectively. The
streaming, swirling movements of blood continue day and night, life-long,
maintaining unity in the complexity of the body, and continuity through
continual change.
Image credit © Philip Kilner
Production
How
To Live
Projected
Worlds
Tomorrow Belongs to Me
The Fluent Heart
Research
and Development
Anatomy
and the Performance of Weight
Close
to the Wall
Ethereal
Bodies
Euthanasia and assisted suicide
Forecast:
Disruption
Karoshi
Marsyas: Running out of skin
New Chamber Opera
Punters: Auto-portraits of fairground thrill
Zero
Gravity