Poster created for the exhibition Johanna Billings: I'm Lost Without your Rhythm (17 April - 6 June 2010).

Reflecting on routine, rehearsal and ritual, Johanna Billings video works emphasise the fragility of individual performance and the power of collective experience. ‘I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm’ is based around the recording of a live choreography event over several days involving amateur Romanian dancers and acting students in Iasi during the Periferic 8 Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2009. 

The project was an attempt to explore, along with the participants and the audience, what contemporary dance can be, or means today, especially in relation to a developing country and economy such as Romania. Consequently the work becomes about movement in general, choreography as closer to everyday life than might first be imagined.

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