The Folded Scene

CREATIVE TEAM

Choreographer: Alice Dixon
Sound, Composer: Matthias Schack-Arnott
Composer: Bela Bartok
Dancers: Alice, Dixon, Rachel Mackie, Martin Hansen

Lighting Designer: Rachel Lee

DOCUMENTATION

Photography: Luke Currie-Richardson and Mark Gambino

Video: NON Studio

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

Escalator 2025 at The Abbotsford Convent, Magdalen Laundry

PRODUCTION

Producer: Beth Raywood-Cross
Lighting Design and Production: Rachel Lee
Lighting Associate: Nick Moloney
Producer Intern: Kayla Douglas
Curated by: Stephanie Lake Company

Escalator is presented and curated by stephanie lake company. in 2025, the escalator choreographers are also supported by partners Insite arts international.

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“Dixon, together with Martin Hansen and Rachel Mackie, give the cinematic and symbolic cymbal crash finale, á la Stanley Kubrik’s The Shining, set to Béla Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, a rewrite, in “a kind of [for tonight] permanent way.” Something about Rachel Lee’s lighting now makes manifest, for me, a Rainer Werner Fassbinder film and New German Cinema of the second half of the twentieth century. On a cushion, peering between the shoulders of those sat before me, I see fragments of Dixon, Hansen, and Mackie as they wave and catch sound, and I weave these luminous filaments into my own film.”

- Gracia Haby for Fjord Review