newest ~ 11-02 ~ 11-01 ~ 10-01 ~ 08-01 07-02 ~ 07-01 ~ 06-04 ~ 06-03 ~ 06-02 devolution video (2.31 mb) Spine by Gina Czarnecki (World Premiere) 17.00 - 22.00 Where: Bell Tower of Newcastle Civic Centre When: Thursday 2 - Sunday 12 March How Much: free Info: 0191 232 8289 This is Gina Czarnecki's first ever outdoor artwork and is so bewitching that when watching it you may lose all sense of space, time and purpose. More than 1000 images of naked dancers falling through space will run the length of Newcastle Civic Centre's famous tower. Gina's past work is directly influenced by her own harrowing experiences in an isolation unit, suspected of having contracted the deadly Ebola virus. Spine is part-biology, part-technology, and asks, what happens when the human genetic mix is corrupted? The dancers in the film are only just recognisable as human forms as she tinkers with real time: stretching, smearing and distorting it until the dancers' bodies gradually become intertwined, turbulent and mutated fragments. Individual forms merge, creating a super organism. Fleeting impressions are left which look like mutant animals or spectres. Gina equates them to most like smoke, 'leaving a trail of movement behind them'. The result is beautiful and disturbing at the same time. Prepare to be bewitched by it. Spine is produced by Forma and commissioned by AV Festival 06, co-produced with Australian Dance Theatre and supported by Arts Council England.