Michael Clark Company Residency in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

Widely considered as one of the most eminent and groundbreaking choreographers today, Michael Clark and his dance company will transform the Turbine Hall into a space for experimentation and practice while they prepare a new work created in response to this monumental space.

This unique display of live art will provide an extraordinary opportunity for Tate visitors to witness the artistic process behind Clark’s choreography.

Michael Clark is also inviting 100 members of the public to join weekly workshops with the company in July and August.

The group of 100 untrained dancers will learn a piece of choreography to be performed en-masse over the August Bank Holiday weekend in the Turbine Hall in free public performances.  Potential volunteers should email volunteer.clark@tate.org.uk.

Clark will use choreography, film, light and sound to create a site-specific dance event, working with collaborators including Charles Atlas, Peter Doig, Stevie Stewart and Richard Torry. Clark has presented work within gallery spaces on many occasions, but this residency will enable him to respond specifically to the iconic architecture through a series of experiments, placing the emphasis on the process.

The world premier of the new commission will be performed in the Turbine Hall in June 2011.

Artist Charles Atlas, one of the premier interpreters of dance, theatre and performance on video, and lighting director for all of Clark’s work, will also curate a film programme of his and Clark’s collaborative films, presented over the August Bank Holiday weekend.  Also featured is the first UK screening of Torse, Atlas’s 1977 two-screen collaboration with Merce Cunningham.

Michael Clark Company is an Associate Artist of the Barbican and supported by Arts Council England.