A tourable, large-scale video triptych of The Machinery, a piece exploring women and mechanised labour, created by Sarah Angliss, Caroline Radcliffe – filmed by video artist John Harrison in 2018. Supported by ACE.
Recreating a 1970s algorthmic dance piece by pen and paper-based systems artist Channa Horwitz
A paper with performer and theatre historian Caroline Radcliffe on our interpretion of The Machinery. This astounding industrial dance from the early nineteeth century was devised by women working in the Lancashire cotton mills. Wearing clogs, they copied the sounds and actions of the factory machines. In Performance Research.
In this optimistic view of mechanisation for TEDx Brighton (2011), Sarah reveals some surprising connections between two types of dance music, inspired by the relentless beat of the factory machine, which flourished two centuries apart. The earliest was devised by women working in Lancashire cotton mills.
Background notes from Sarah’s TEDx talk Loving the Machine.