1. Seven Sisters Group &
Studio Seven
About two artist collectives and their use of dance as
an accessory in a different artistic context.

2. • Salomé & Trainstation (site-specific
performances by Seven Sisters Group)
• Beyond the Black Box (text by
Phoebe von Held about the work of Seven
Sisters)
• Creative writing task.
• Cut 2 On Fold (site specific performance
by Studio Seven)

3. www.sevensistersgroup.com

9. http://www.youtube.com/user/sevensistersgroup#

12. http://www.youtube.com/user/sevensistersgroup#

13. “The picture that presented itself for me at Victoria was a station packed
with people streaming through the rush hour. Some easy listening music
was played over the tannoy like in a supermarket. The whole scenario was
totally bizarre and misplaced, and yet nobody seemed to care, it just
washed over people. This was a really strong guiding idea for
choreographing Trainstation. Everything we did on the concourse was all
about the question: is it really there, or not? Should it be there? Should you
take any notice, or just let it rush by?
This scenario of people waiting on the concourse staring at announcement
boards is such a theatrical picture, which appears as if designed, like a
'natural' choreography. In the rehearsal process, we started to look more
and more at the movement vocabulary specific to stations, the endless
patterns of people moving and passing through them, people pairing up in
duos, trios, and falling apart again. Another layer was the psychological and
emotional context of railway stations, which seem to be one of the few
public places where you have really mundane events happening next to
very personal emotional scenes - arrivals and partings, couples wishing
each other farewell.” (Susanne Thomas)

14. Create a text similar to Thomas’ comment
about her piece “Trainstation” for a hypothetical
piece called “Public Toilets (Ladies)”.
Use a similar style and structure (max. 200
words, 2 paragraphs) referring to observations,
personal judgments, questions, creative
processes, social/psychological contexts etc.

15. www.studio-seven.net