Disrupted Rhythms: The Dance of the Rhythmanalists (Trailer 2024)

Disrupted Rhythms: The Dance of the Rhythmanalysts is an ongoing creative investigation suited to an era of disrupted rhythms. It is a rhythm-laboratory comprised of dancers, performers, cinematographers, photographers, composers, musicians, poets, intellectuals and anyone we can seduce into participation. Our enquiry into the nature of rhythm takes us from the heartbeat to modes of production, from customs and conventions to revolutions and crises. Yet despite the grand scope of our investigations, our method starts with movement―impromptu dance―the joy of moving in space.
To live today is to live with a sense of disruption. Global events such as the 2007/8 financial crises and recession, the ensuing crises of ‘representational’ democracy, the COVID-19 pandemic and impending economic fall-out, and escalating threats of ecological catastrophe bring down a hammers blow against the end of history, which provided, for some at least, a sense of disruption discontinued. Disrupted Rhythms is a poetic phenomenological investigation into this sense of disruption. It deploys devices and techniques from dance, music, painting, poetry, photography, costume, film, performance, philosophy, phenomenology, economy, history, sociology, dialectics, music theory, biology, physiology, politics, and a plethora of other approaches and disciplines useful to our cause. Its starting point, however, is rhythm.