A World of Signs and Types is a danced geography of the Oxford community of Littlemore and its collective unconscious. This is a collaborative and community based artistic experiment including dance, music, writing, and film created to conjure up a pure visceral experience from the subconscious while being presented with the recorded unconscious. Two sleepers alight upon multiple portals to the community, rest upon relics of the past, and synchronistically meet at the heart of the community while spoken dreams carry us through, distort, and cast contrasting shadows upon what is seen. The assembled dreamscape colorfully invites the viewer to an intuitive journey through music, dance, and spoken word.
A World of Signs and Types, devised and created by dancer/choreographer Michelle Azdajic, film maker Chris Atkins and musician/composer Malcolm Atkins, will be shown with improvised live musical accompaniment as part of Littlemore Hopes and Dreams, a fantastic concert that will include the Littlemore Mass (composed for Littlemore using melodies from different Oxford communities); songs chosen by the Response Singing Group; and songs chosen by the Littlemore Over 60s Lunch Club.
All are welcome to this special summer concert.
Performance: Sunday 25th June, 3 pm
Venue: St Mary and St Nicholas Church, 12 Dudgeon Drive, Littlemore Oxford OX4 4QL
For more information contact Rev’d Margreet Armitstead by email here, or telephone 01865 748003
Find information about this event on Facebook here
This film can also now be accessed on YouTube here.
Oxford Dance Writers 
June 23, 2017 at 12:06 pm
[…] As Musician in Residence at St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Associate Lecturer Malcolm Atkins has been trying to engage the local community in the creation of and contemplation of sound and song and continued his own research into the nature of sound and song within different communities. This year, Malcolm attempted to initiate work around dreams as a reflection of a collective local unconscious that could link the diverse cultural experience of the community to the geography of the area and be a ground for a musical and motional response. One of the outcomes was this film – created through a collaboration between Malcolm as composer/performer and a dancer/choreographer Michelle Azdajic and film maker Chris Atkins. It started from dreams gathered from local people which reflect aspects of the area they live in as well as the cultural diversity of the area. Dance and music were combined with image to create a commentary on the supplied texts. A write up on the film and its use in a live performance is located here. […]