8:00 min | 1998 | UK
Director: Anthony Atanasio | Choreographer & Performer: Miriam King
http://www.southeastdance.org.uk/films-excerpt-dust.htm
A Butoh-influenced dance piece traces the solitary journey of a stranded, long distance swimmer within a waterless world. Searching for the sea of her dreams, her struggle eventually brings rain, regeneration and hope.
Miriam King is an independent Choreographer, Dancer and Live Artist. In 1990 Mim received an Arts Council training bursary enabling her to train and work with Anton Adasinsky and his Russian performance company Derevo at their former studio in Leningrad, Russia. She has received further training bursaries to study Butoh dance with various international teachers such as Charlotta Ikeda, Masaki Iwana and Kim Itoh. Also training bursaries to train in Dance Film as a choreographer on courses led by Peter Anderson, Miranda Pennel and Philippe Decoufle.
In 1992 Mim founded the performance company Raukus Mir and received South East Arts funding to create The Circle Project which was performed at Gallery H, Kostelec near Prague, Czechoslavakia. Mim has received commissions from Chisenhale Dance Space, London. Her work We Straddle co-created with Barnaby O'Rorke has been included in the ICA National Review of Live Art. She has created several performances in Germany, such as Faith for the Berlin Congress of Visual and Performance Art. Also work for gallery spaces such as Knaack Gallery, Dock 11 and die KulturBrauerei, all in Berlin.
