ALINE COSTA x TOMMY HUSBAND

About

Filmed and directed by Tommy Husband over two days in the Invisible Wind Factory, a new film documents a new dance work devised and performed by Aline Costa. It is accompanied by a musical score created in response by Tommy. The dance piece takes as a starting point the female body, and uses movement to explore the tensions between beauty, fragility, strength and grace. The film is presented in a special dual-projection installation in our gallery space, and will also available to be viewed on our website.

Aline is a Swiss performer and movement artist with a background in contemporary dance and physical theatre. Tommy is a writer, director and filmmaker with a recent focus on music videos, working with Stealing Sheep, Brigid Mae Power & Ex-Easter Island Head among many others.

Aline explains; “when I started this project I found myself in the difficult situation of not knowing exactly the concept that I wanted to explore, nor the story I wanted to tell. As a first step, I took the body. I wanted to break its beauty, I wanted to make uneasy angles, to make it unnatural, almost painful... and from there a little story came up, back in time, back in some kind of surreal and mystical place. As a choreographer and as a dancer I really believe in the romantic idea that  dance is a universal language. I have always been amazed at how much is understood with only a movement or gesture, and how much can resonate with each individual in different ways. Dance speaks many languages, whatever you understand of this piece is what you need to hear in yourself, what moves you, in your own story and your own experience.”

In addition to his music video work, Tommy Husband co-created, directed, shot and edited Stock Footage during the lockdowns of 2020/21. This Arts Council funded series of live music performances and interviews was broadcast from our closest neighbours, the Kazimier Stockroom, and features a range of local talent including recent OUTPUT exhibitor Podge. Originally from Cornwall, Tommy studied Film Production at the Arts Institute in Bournemouth before joining Warp films, working across multiple projects and roles. His work has screened in competition at the London Short Film Festival.

Aline Costa moved to Liverpool from Mexico in 2016, having studied Scenic Dance at the Institute of Fine Arts, Colima University in Mexico, where she was an active member of Univerdanza Dance Company. She has presented her work at LEAP Dance Festival, Threshold Festival and the Unity Theatre and was recently selected for the Associate Artist Scheme at Ludus Dance where she has developed a new solo piece entitled ‘A Woman’s Face’ which will be presented at the Lancashire Fringe Festival in Preston in May this year.