JOHN

A man wearing sunglasses is squatting on a stage.

A man in a blue shirt and blue trousers is standing on a stage.

A man is standing on a stage in front of a black background.

A man is standing on a stage holding two mobile phones.

Photos: Amy Sinead

JOHN

John is a durational dance and sound performance inspired by American composer John Cage.

John is a collaboration with sound artist Ben Fletcher. Together, they seek to establish a game between silence and sound, between movement and stillness, and between performers and audience. The performance is a study of focus, chance, precision and repetition.

This is the first development stage of an intended diptych of durational performances: ‘John’ & ‘Johann’, inspired by composers John Cage and Johann Sebastian Bach. ‘Johann’ will be a 3-hour long performance of the Prelude to the 1st cello suite by J.S. Bach, with each note played for around 20 seconds to create a real-time, time-stretched rework of a familiar piece of music.