Florencia García Chafuén as the Witch with impromptu shoe brank. Film still by Daniel Warren. The Work Room, Glasgow. April 2010.
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The filmmaker Daniel Warren was commissioned by The Work Room to make a film about the improvisational development of The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME, April 2010. This extract from Daniel Warren's film shows the dancer Rosalind Masson as The Muse, wearing a Nasir Mazhar headress and articulating gestures found within depictions of the Muse within Greco-Roman mythology.
Maxwell Sterling plays double bass.
Linder and Richard Nicoll / photograph: Tim Walker/ collage: Linder/ clothes: Richard Nicoll. 2009
photograph: Tim Walker/collage: Linder /clothes: Richard Nicoll 2009
Charming Maid. Linder (Stuart Shave/Modern Art) 2008. Room Divider, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, curated by Michael Bracewell.
Maxwell Sterling: double bass / Rachel Aisling Smith: Christian Louboutin boots and mechanical riveter / Sari Leivenon: tap shoes / Virgin: train
Recorded and edited by Antti Saario. The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME. 23. iv. 2010, Glasgow.
Linder and Judith Williams. Glasgow 23. iv. 2010. photograph: Catriona Gourlay.
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Stuart McCallum - guitar / Florencia García Chafuén - The Witch /Rachel Aisling Smith - The Cakewalk King / / Judith Williams - Puella Aeterna.
Improvisation at The Work Room, Glasgow. February 2010.
dancer - Florencia García Chafuén/costume by Richard Nicoll/styled by Anthony Campbell/photograph by Jannica Honey. Glasgow 23. iv. 2010
"When Life seems dreary, Oh
Switch on your Stereo
And turn the volume too high:
Soft music makes us cry.
Come, girls and boys
More noise, more noise!
Yell while you can and save
Your silence for the grave.
Never look at a thing
Except through a camera lens.
The moral is, as they have said:
Be with-it, with-it, with-it till you're dead."
Extracts from The Entertainment of the Senses
W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, September, 1973