2025,
2mins 38sec, single channel film, DOP Paul Blakemore
Filmed from above in a single continuous take,
Bubble Dance depicts a group of people learning a choreographed dance that mimics the movement of bubbles travelling through liquid.
Developed during research into fermentation, the work translates the semi-invisible processes of bubbling and transformation into a collective, embodied action.
Each participant wears a bespoke, handmade hat topped with a green-screen disc. The hat acts as both costume and tool — a means through which each dancer can disappear and re-emerge within the moving image. In this shifting visibility, the work plays with the boundaries of presence and absence, and the idea of what remains unseen.
Bubble Dance was made for
Down the Hatch (2025), a solo exhibition commissioned by East Quay, Watchet and funded by Arts Council England.
