Sue MacLaine
Sue MacLaine sits with her back to us at a foil-strewn table on a dark stage, facing a large projection of a naked, grey-haired figure curled inside a glowing translucent pod amid crumpled silver foil.

2023

I Maybe Sometime

… was created in pursuit and support of my practice-as-research PhD (awarded 2025). The performance manipulates the presence of two manifestations of a devolved autobiographical 'I'. The first, my self-conceptualisation as being a high functioning dead person emerging from the radical rupture of early childhood trauma. Second, the real-life person of Anna Bågenhölm who, following a skiing accident, was suspended head down under ice for 80 minutes with only her feet and skis remaining visible. During the 80 minutes Anna seesawed between life and death, held in both and neither by the protective qualities of hypothermia. Following a full blood transfusion that warmed and slowly returned the blood to Anna's body, she returned to consciousness some three weeks later.

A work-in-progress performance was hosted by the Undisciplined Festival at The Dance Space, Brighton in 2023.

Wrapped in a silver foil blanket, Sue MacLaine kneels beside a small table on a dark stage as a large projection shows a figure climbing an icy slope alongside a close-up of her face.
  • Documentation, film, still image, editing & dramaturgical guidance: Eleanor Sikorski
  • Body in play, choreography & dramaturgical guidance: Seke Chimutengwende
  • Aerial training, aerial choreography & dramaturgical guidance: Lindsey Butcher
  • BSL consultant: Brian Duffy

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