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On The Trax was inspired, in part, by the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico. A starkly dynamic choreography by Martha Curtis has been specially adapted for the screen, with innovative and unusual camera angles used to great effect. It features internationally- renowned soloist Li Chiao-Ping.

Giorgio de Chirico believed we should “live in the world as if in an immense museum of strangeness”, and this is what is to be found in his paintings, with their atmosphere of powerful mystery and enigma: strange empty buildings and squares with long-cast shadows, populated with stark, isolated figures, mannequins and odd inexplicable objects. De Chirico maintained that his paintings were revealed to him while in a dream-like trance. He wanted to find a way of representing alienated states. As he noted, “an inexplicable state X can exist both behind and in front of a painted, described or imagined thing, but above all within the thing itself.” Dennis Rexroad’s art direction for On The Trax not only alludes visually and spatially to de Chirico’s art but creates a setting that draws Li Chiao-Ping into the hallucinatory reality of his ‘metaphysical paintings’. It is as if her creative process as a dancer is inextricably linked with the surreal world in which she finds herself. Her movements alternate between being driven and frenzied to being exaggeratedly slow, as if suspended in time.

On The Trax is danced to an original score by Marty McCavitt. The costumes are by Susan Cologne.

Cast: Li Chiao-Ping
Director(s): Bruce Berryhill and Martha Curtis
Format: Colour
Classification: Exempt
Running Time: 18 minutes
Studio: RD Studios
Download Size: 103.6 MB