Following Heloise Tunstall-Behrens & Auclair’s Sonic Bites on Thu 6 May, Dance Off links our own movements to that of bees, exploring individuality and community in the process. A swirl of noise and vision, it is the pivotal moment within the narrative of choral sound work The Swarm, when the bees have to decide as a group where they will build their new home together. Scout bees seek out potential new locations, like metal cylinders, ventilation shafts, hollow trees, and other cavities found in an urban environment. They then return to the waiting cluster of bees and communicate their findings using a sequence of movements, called a ‘waggle dance’. With this work, the artists wanted to imagine the world from a bees-eye view, collaborating with Rosalind Fowler, Tilly Mint & Simon Ryninks.
