interview with Allison Cummings from Combat at the SummerWorks Festival 2011
Allison Cummings on Combat: 2011 SummerWorks Dance Interviews By Lucy Rupert Allison Cummings, co-director of a joint production by tiny bird theatre and Sore for Punching You, reveals a bit about Combat , premiering at SummerWorks Festival. LR: What is Combat all about? AC: Combat takes us into a mundane office in what might be Toronto where a young woman, returning from working in a conflict-zone overseas, attempts to re-enter society. Here she finds the tiny conflicts and bids for power amplified. Removed from the sensory experience of war she watches as her office becomes a battleground. The piece explores scale and distance and how our relationship to conflict embodies itself into our everyday lives, whether it is happening far away on a mass scale, or within the confines of our interpersonal dynamics. LR: How did you find or decide on your collaborators? AC: Claire Calnan (co-director of Combat ) and I began talking about collaborating together about two years ago, as we were ...