CALIFORNIA
‘Awakened at dawn trying to run away, Got caught dream, Shop-lifting’ Allen Ginsberg (1984)
A series of filmed solos created in collaboration at distance in 2020.
Creation is collaboration, it is community, it is communication. This project is an attempt to continue to collaborate, to work together across distance. To sustain the heart of what it is, to me, to work with dance, with movement, with people.
The processes are individual, developing between myself and the collaborators over time to respond to our individual situations and schedules.
The films are reflective of our shared situations, our shared feelings.
The project is titled CALIFORNIA, with each solo named after a place that is somehow RELEVANT to me. From a young age we visited California as a family, driven by my fathers fascination with the Beat Generation, his ashes are now scattered there. It has remained a place of dreams for me, a place of possibility and discovery. At this time perhaps we all escape at moments to somewhere other than the walls we are existing within, we all have our ‘California’.
Matthew Robinson, 2020
NORTH BEACH
A COLLABORATION / Luigi Nardone and Matthew Robinson
performer / Luigi Nardone
direction and edit / Matthew robinson
music / Peter Gregson
SILVER LAKE
a collaboration / Theo Arran and Matthew Robinson
performer / Theo Arran
direction and edit / Matthew robinson
music / Peter Gregson
FEATHER RIVER
a collaboration / DORNA ASHORY and Matthew Robinson
performer / DORNA ASHORY
direction and edit / Matthew robinson
music / OLAFUR ARNALDS and NILS FRAHM
ECHO PARK
a collaboration / MAYA CARROLL and Matthew Robinson
performer / MAYA CARROLL
direction and edit / Matthew robinson
music / TOM ASHBROOK
