{"identifier":"IG-Than_6312282156112","browse_author":"James Cunningham (Choreographer), Suzon Fuks (Director), Igneous (Performed by), James Cunningham (Performed by) and Igneous (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_dancesch"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350917958,"description":"Originally a \"serial\" multi-site performance delivered over 7 days and later adapted to a screen-based video, Thanatonauts takes Death as a land that can be visited, layered with interviews of people sharing their personal perceptions and experiences. Inspired by the French author Bernard Werber's novel \"Les Thanatonautes\", in which Death - the last frontier - is navigated and charted, the work combines stories, contemporary dance, Kalaripayatt (South Indian martial art), and original music and soundscape. The interviews of Brisbane locals that are interweaved throughout the work present views into people's inner-world. - Live performance + interviews (54:14 min) October 7-13, 2001, l\u2019attitude 27.5 Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse - Videodance (13:20 min) February 2004. Performers, James Cunningham, Vinildas Gurukkal, Scotia Monkivitch, Simon Adams. Executive producer, Igneous; director, Suzon Fuks; choreographer, James Cunningham in collaboration with director and performers; performers, James Cunningham, Vinildas Gurukkal, Scotia Monkivitch, Simon Adams; director of photography, Russell Milledge; 2nd camera, Karenza Bowen; editors, Suzon Fuks, Charlotte Cutting; composer, Zane Trow; sound designer, Andrew Kettle; Lighting & production manager, Charles Wiles; costume designer, Sharka Bosakova; production assistant, Sunita Jariwala. \n Igneous is a Brisbane-based multimedia and performance company founded by Suzon Fuks, multimedia artist, director and photographer, and James Cunningham, choreographer and performer. They are also founding members of the international cyberformance group ActiveLayers. Together they create stage shows, performance-installations, video-dance works and onLine performances, presenting work in Australia, Europe (Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany, Poland), UK, and India. They facilitate workshops, master classes and labs on the integration of visual media and the performing arts, have been artists in residence at the University of Sydney, Brisbane Powerhouse, Dravidia Gallery and Shivashakti Kalarikshetram in Kochi, India (through Asialink), Dance4 Nottingham, and University of Brighton, and were awarded a fellowship at the Australian Choreographic Centre in Canberra.","videoId":6312282156112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_dancesch","title":"Thanatonauts - Navigators of Death","xml_source":"bvl_dancesch_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"IG-Than","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/c8ca219e-c15f-469f-888d-9817f608efed/abe099c8-3199-4611-85f9-3e7fe45335ea/1280x720/match/image.jpg","series_id":"series_igneous","facets":"asianDanceDramaAndMusic , Asian dance, drama and music , contemporaryDance , Contemporary dance , dancePerformance , Dance performance , livePerformance , Live performance , multimediaAndVirtualPerformance , Multimedia and virtual performance , dance , Dance , performanceArt , Performance Art , death , Death , experimental , Experimental , mythsAndLegends , Myths and legends , _20002009 , 2000\u20132009 , made_20002009 , 2000\u20132009 , australia , Australia , origin_australia , Australia , video , Video , asianStudies , Asian Studies , artsAndLiterature , Arts and literature , oceania , Oceania , anthropology , Anthropology , _2000Present , 2000\u2013present , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present , origin_oceania , Oceania ,","contenttypeorder":3,"series":"Igneous","date_of_publication":2008,"publisher":"Igneous Igneous","productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"IG-Than","facet":["_20002009","_2000Present","anthropology","artsAndLiterature","asianDanceDramaAndMusic","asianStudies","australia","contemporaryDance","dance","dancePerformance","death","experimental","livePerformance","made_20002009","made_2000Present","multimediaAndVirtualPerformance","mythsAndLegends","oceania","origin_australia","origin_oceania","performanceArt","video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"James Cunningham~Suzon Fuks~Igneous~James Cunningham~Igneous"}