A behind-the-scenes look at the rehearsals for Nick Cave’s HEARD performance

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the rehearsals for Nick Cave’s HEARD•BNE 2016 performance which was performed over the opening weekend of ‘Sugar Spin: you, me, art and everything’ in December 2016 and again in mid-January 2017 to celebrate GOMA turning 10. HEARD consists of 30 ‘soundsuits’, made to be worn or displayed as sculpture.

Rehearsals for Nick Cave’s HEARD•BNE 2016 performance to mark the tenth anniversary of GOMA, December 2016 - January 2017 at the Gallery of Modern Art — Rehearsals for Nick Cave’s *HEARD•BNE 2016* performance to mark the tenth anniversary of GOMA, December 2016 – January 2017 at the Gallery of Modern Art/ Photographs: Chloe Callistemon © QAGOMA

HEARD comes alive as a large-scale community performance, each horse is brought to life by two dancers who develop its behavior and character and involves a group of individuals working together to become something larger – firstly as a pair, and then as the ‘herd’. The performance relies on the strengths of the individual and the massed group. Similarly, the choreography shifts from free-form improvisation to a trained body of dancers moving in unison; open-ended creativity and coordinated structure are of equally critical value, as they are within our society as a whole.

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