GOLDEN

Day 4 – Ballroom Lesson – The first of a series of strictly DIY ballroom sessions, facilitated on alternate days by dancers and choreographers Jenevieve Chang and Annie Pui Ling Lok. As a way into the material, picking up on visual and textbook motifs, Annie improvised for a continuous hour to the provisional Golden Hour mix, documented by two cameras, one static, one hand-held. Concluded with a discussion on possible tactics to enable audience participation.

For the second ‘lesson’, we worked together from diagrams and instructions copied from Alex Moore’s Ballroom Dancing (1936), to figure out certain steps, encouraging visitors to ‘have a go’ too… diffusing the division between ‘instructor’ and ‘student’, ‘professional’, ‘amateur’ and ‘novice’, the motive being to open up a ‘do-it-yourself’ space that referenced ‘standards’, but focused on the gap between imaginary ideals and desires or aspirations…