Yes, it's got to be the best inspiration for D&G writers next week! The Tide Machine, Scotland’s first tide-powered stage, will be installed on the River Nith at Kingholm Quay in Dumfries this weekend, in time for two special performances at the high tides on Wednesday 28 April.
The specially commissioned theatrical dance performance by Alex’s company Oceanallover ‘The Tide Machine Show’, which involves 25 performers in fantastical costumes and strange, deep-sea soundscapes, is timed for the high tide at noon, and Oceanallover will repeat their performance at the next high tide, at midnight.
Spectacular new costumes are being created for Oceanallover’s performance, ‘The Tide Machine Show’. Some of the costumes involve huge reclaimed church organ pipes, which can be ‘played’ by the wearer, using bellows under the arms. More organ pipes will be installed on The Tide Machine itself: Mark and Alex have invented a means of using the tide to compress air which plays the organ pipes. The soundscapes and costumes reflect the ‘story’ Oceanallover have created to fuel this performance – a modern myth about the cycle of tides and lunar pull, in which creatures of the sea are drawn first earthwards, and then towards the moon in a repeating process of ebb and flow…
Have a look at http://oceanallover.blogspot.com/2010/04/testing-and-fitting.html Irresistable.
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