ON THE HOUSE

Artistic Director and Director of Photography Charlotte Vincent
Soundtrack John Avery
Set Design Richard Lowdon
Video Edit James Harrison
Made and performed by TC Howard with Manel Trias (2000)/ Janusz Orlik (2003)

Set in gallery or theatre spaces, On the House exists as a looped video and sound installation, inhabited at specific times by a live performance. With the glasshouse in the middle of the space, the floor covered with leaves and no conventional seating, the audience sits as close to or far from the action as they wish, and are invited to follow the work by moving around the space as the piece unfolds. Video imagery is projected across the corners of the performance space and onto the floor, creating a playful, rustic environment in which a man and a woman try to share space. In the live duet a man and a woman slide, talk, sing, swing, perch and fight - every act visible through transparent walls.

At times where there is no live action, Vincent Dance Theatre's 35mm short film Glasshouse, a dark and brooding study of a relationship gone wrong loops in the space. On the House uncovers a universe where real, filmed, choreographed and imagined time frames kaleidoscope into one affecting and intimate event.

On the House was originally commissioned in 2000 by Site Gallery (Sheffield) and Arnolfini (Bristol).

'An extraordinary sense of environment, a total theatrical experience. Unrivalled speed and agility' Venue Magazine, Bristol