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Title Age-Old review, 4 stars, The Herald Media name/outlet The Herald Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 5/02/13 Description Performance review of Age-Old, presented at Summerhall as part of Manipulate and Buzzcut (2013). URL and text copied below:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13090933.buzzcut-por-sal-y-samba-summer-hall-edinburgh/
Take the warren of interesting spaces that exists at Summerhall, add in the programming flair of Glasgow's Buzzcut, with its emphasis on new work by radical young artists, and you have a really enterprising start to Manipulate 2013 – one that flags up the potent energy of visual imagery in performance.
Sarah Hopfinger's Age Old revisited an earlier solo where she gently melded childhood memories of place with shifts in outlook brought about by an adult perspective. This new episode saw her in cahoots with the unselfconsciously-forthright Carragh McLiven, aged seven. Again, a core strand was the natural world both real and as filtered through the prism of a child's imagination. But Carragh was no mini-Sarah, even when she echoed Hopfinger's movements or picked up on games-playing cues. What emerged was a tender, merry yet affecting dialogue about the distances – in noticing, understanding, believing –that grow in, and with us across years. The footage of them attempting to fly, with air-filled plastic bags as wings, was a joyous reminder that age needn't wither dreams or optimism.Producer/Author Mary Brennan URL https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13090933.buzzcut-por-sal-y-samba-summer-hall-edinburgh/
Keywords
- Intergenerational
- Child performer
- Performance
- Ecological performance
- Live art