On the Brink

An evocative visual poem.
A movement film inspired by the West Jurassic Coast.
A saga of the coast interpreted through the physicality of the moving body.
Watch Part 1 of the video of On the Brink.
Watch Part 2 of the video of On the Brink

"Contemplation, but also sheer free sexiness and sensuality in Sandra's dance with the sea in her red dress - pure joy, sheer pain and the randomness of things so vividly embodied."
R.S.

Movement artists: Helen Poynor and Sandra Reeve
Video-maker: Peter Batty
Musician / composer: Tim Jones
A Multiple Women production 2001
Commissioned by PVA MediaLab
Funded by West Dorset District Council and South West Arts

"It's not only sites that are porous. In Multiple Women's recent film On the Brink movement artist Sandra Reeve levers herself across the rocks of the Dorset coastline. A hybrid of: crab; the mud she's caked in; Sandra; and places in her body's experience and training (Java, Lausanne, dusty Bristol church hall). We are also sites. Our bodies are extended organisms reacting to and acting on boundaries far beyond our skins. We are in, intimately in, our sites. And they are us,"
Total Theatre, 2002