Sledgehammer Songs
What place The Music in your heart or a Song in your legs? What purpose for The Blood if not to carry The Sorrows? What purpose The Ocean released across The Forehead and what for The Long Grass, which grows beside the water, if not to kiss behind?
Sledge Hammer Songs evokes the mystery of the Medicine Show, the poetry of Pub Rock and the loneliness of the European Busker. Drawing on Spectacular Social Practices of Crop Growing, CD Burning, Cloud Taming and Justin Timberlaking the evenings activities exhaust, exasperate and evaporate all those who dance to The Calling.
Sledge Hammer Songs is a resolving performance in Lone Twins internationally acclaimed series The Days of The Sledge Hammer Have Gone; a collection of actions and events that attempt a meeting between the liquidity of our bodys physicality and the network of rivers, seas and lakes that shape a lands human geography.
Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters deal specifically with ideas of place, travel and orientation. In 2004 the company have toured UK, Sweden, Norway, Germany and USA and presented a specially commissioned 24-day performance to Brussels KunstenFESTIVALdesArts. They were recipients of the 2003 Arts Council of England and Knstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt International Fellowship.