The full line up for Glastonbury is announced today, but we’ve got something special for you – it's not just bands - the full name is Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, so Marnie McKee peeks inside the big tops that Lost Vagueness are erecting in Michael Eavis's fields to get the low down on what's on this year: from cabaret to cinema, they've got it covered.
1 Jun 2007 12:00
Marnie McKee
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At this moment in time, Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis is constructing hundreds of metres of tapestries along the fencing around his farm in Somerset. The tapestries outline the history of radical protest. And in the middle of that farm, Lost Vagueness founder/director Roy Gurvitz and his band of riggers, technicians and other crazed workers are erecting a magnificent steadfast arena, designed to last through rain and flood, wind and mud.
Lost Vagueness is not a band. It’s hard to define, but wonderful to experience. Lost Vagueness essentially creates an alternate world of performance within a festival that’s already taken you a certain distance from everyday life.
Marnie McKee currently lives in London. In the mid-90’s she co-founded ToyBox Circus staging fire and light shows and art installations Australia-wide. Marnie co-produced two major Bodyweather-based works with dancer/director Leah Grycewicz. They toured Pre-Millenium Drinks across Australia (1998); and staged Stratus999, a 3-month site-specific multi-media dance project involving 8 international artists, in Cairns, Queensland. Marnie studied Bodyweather as part of Tess de Quincey’s Sydney-based dance company (1999-2001). In March 2004, Marnie settled in London and has since concentrated on establishing Bodyweather training in London, with dancer/teacher Rachel Sweeney. Together they have worked as AnonAnon, researching and creating interactive performance for site-based work (ranging from nightclub to national park) using immersive, inhabitational and durational tools. Congruently, Marnie has been training with and performing for Stuart Lynch (of Holberg School) in Oslo and London, and more recently, training with Frank van de Ven of Bodyweather Amsterdam in Holland and France.
