The Eagle Dance (after Marcel Broodthaers) 2009/2017
 
Split-screen single video
Duration: 6.07 min.
HD (1440p) Pal, colour, sound

​​Combining modern dance, performance and falconry display the Eagle Dance was choreographed to sound tracks by the experimental band Bender. Inspired by Marcel Broodthaers Musée d’Aigle and early performance art, most notably Marina Abramovic and Rebecca Horn, the concept also playfully engages with Deleuze’s notion of ‘becoming animal’. Both dancers employ their training in contact dance to improvise movements similar to that of birds. The Falconry birds were part of the choreography and also appeared in another iteration of The Eagle Document, the live performance in 2007 at the James Hockey and Foyer Galleries in Farnham.

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Credits:
 
Director                                                Monika Oechsler
Production Manager                       Steve Hines
DOP                                                        Mattias Nyberg
Second Camera Operator             Roger Eaton
Camera Assistant                              Mike Tombeur
Lighting Gaffer                                   Ben Kerr
Camera operators 3 & 4                Bernie Fredrickson, Greg Taylor, 
Editing                                                   Monika Oechsler
Sound design                                      Sonic_bit3
 
Falconry service:                               Impact Falconry Ltd.
Supervising handler                         James Bradbury
 
Performers/Dancers                       Morag Wightman, Yumino Seki
                                                            
Choreography:                                   Craosmor & Monika Oechsler
 
Set design:                                           Helga Goellner,  Monika Oechsler
 
Sound system:                                   Live Sound Hire
 
Stills photography:                           Alexander Hidalgo.
 
Music by:                                             Bender’