from original Festival website:

Holly Warburton collaborates with Flamenco dancer Carmen Alvarez in this multi-media installation with live performance. A rotating video projection evokes a planetary eclipse as it moves through a landscape of painted and animated images and around the central dance performance. The rotation of the projection mirrors the natural cycles of the moon, earth and sun and the microscopic orbit of the electron around the nucleus. The natural cycles, to which we are bound and are a part of rise and fall, day and night, light and darkness, death and birth, all of these qualities are part of ourselves.

The Fall is made up of two cycles; the first entitled Edda, is inspired by the Nordic Edda saga of the myth of creation, the four elements and the Greek myth of Persephone where within the shadow of the eclipse the darkness of the self is illuminated. This installation was originally  shown at Le Cube in Paris with soundtrack and performance by musician Muriel Louveau.

The second cycle continues a descent into The Fall. Within the continual cycle of death and birth a flight into hubris of illusory ego structures are shattered into a psychic breakdown. The only permanent thing is impermanence, the only certain thing is uncertainty and change. In the current tide of environmental and financial change it is time for revaluation and transformation on a personal and collective level. A time to let go of old structures and a time to come down to earth to feel and listen to the pulse and cycles of nature and an honesty within ones self. A reconnection to a core essence of life. A primal rhythm that is evoked in the dance, sound and images of the installation performance.The fall is an expression of the creative and spiritual journey shared by these two women artists. Satellite technology for the installation is brilliantly designed by Garrard Martin.

The fall is an expression of the creative and spiritual journey shared by these two women artists. Satellite technology for the installation is designed by Garrard Martin.

Holly Warburton studied Fine Art BA at St Martins School of Art and MA at The Royal College of Art, where she began creating multi-screen installations, incorporating tape slide projections and Super 8 film. After leaving college she continued to show her installations and exhibit her photography around UK and abroad, particularly in Japan. Holly developed a photographic style which lead to many commercial commissions with clients such as The Royal Opera House, English National Ballet and The Royal Shakespeare Company. She has created images and video in the music industry and in advertising.  Holly has run art workshops with young people in London schools and produced multi-screen video installations with students in collaboration with the National Gallery. She has run art and video workshops in London with refugee children, including a collaboration with the English National Ballet school and Ballet Rambert. She is now working in London and in the countryside of France developing her artwork in glass, painting and video installation.

Carmen Alvarez  began dancing at the age of four years old at The Dance Academy Conservatory in Malaga and continued to study with leading Flamenco dancers around Spain. As an established flamenco dancer, Carmen began teaching the art of flamenco in Seville and Zurich and continues to give workshops around the world. She has her own flamenco school in a cave above a mountain village just outside of Granada. At present Carmen is developing her own dance and choreography in her studio with the idea of forming her own company and taking flamenco with soul to the world.

Garrard Martin (Technical Designer) first studied medicine and then went on to study photography and Fine Art at St Martins School of Art. For many years he worked as a photographer, graphic designer and lighting cameraman. He co-founded art magazine ZG and has worked with many installation artists. Garrard has worked with interior designers and is currently working on unique site-specific commissions for architecture and interiors; he has just completed an oak staircase adapted from a windmill for an Eco house in Brittany.

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