Tight Roaring Circle: Dana Caspersen, William Forsythe & Joel Ryan
26 March - 27 April 1997
The Roundhouse, London

"Imagine Kant writing the Critique of Judgment on a Space Hopper." (The Independent)

William Forsythe, Dana Caspersen and Joel Ryan were brought together by Artangel to re-animate The Roundhouse as a choreographic instrument tracing movement through architectural space.

Tight Roaring Circle is a return to the Greek roots of the term choreography ("the drawing of movements for a chorus; an inscription of circles") in which Forsythe and Caspersen set up an interaction between fields of light and movement within a soundscape wrought from Ryan's tuning and playing of the building itself as a vast musical instrument.

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How we got to the castle is a long story; the project went through so many different changes. I do remember the meeting when we came up with the idea of the bouncy castle, of creating this massive white pneumatic fortress so big that it threatened to burst out of the Roundhouse. We wanted it to be squeezed in, this big white geometric soft plastic square that was bursting out of its iron ring. And we still didnt tell the press what we were doing.

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