The Event of a Caught Fall1

'It is a contemporary proverb that walking is controlled falling. Continuity embraces discontinuity as walking includes falling. The momentum of walking is the excess of its activity over each successive step. The ongoing quality of walking is that trans-step momentum. Each next step is momentous, in its own little way: it is the event of a caught fall.'
Brian Massumi

A selection of stills from The Event of a Caught Fall


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Shooting Footnotes:
The very short walking sequence was filmed at Dance East's base at The Wolsey Studio in Ipswich in February '03, and used as the end to Motion Studies. It struck me as the perfect beginning for a new piece initiated by Massumi's writing on the process of walking. The intertwined text and footage will form the introduction to the piece.