“Our first work Dream Shadows,  was inspired by the kind of dreams one has while learning to dance. The gestures become obsessive and dominate both sleeping and waking life.

I worked with two Javanese dancers and photographed their hands in all kinds of dance postures.  These were then projected onto cardboard and plastic and cut out to form various positive and negative images about one meter wide and half a meter high.  We used three halogen lights to project these images onto a giant screen.  The dancers then moved within a forest of their own hands, dancing around and through them.  They told a story which seemed to be a strange take on Fatal Attraction: A refined young woman meets a dangerous man.  They flirt.  He gets too forward with her.  They fight—he with a club, she with a bow and arrow.  She kills him. 

  We had twelve gamelan musicians, two dancers, and four lighting technicians.  I realized at a certain point that we were deconstructing the movies.  It was like taking apart a film projector and replacing all mechanical parts with humans.”