"Dear Elizabeth" employs six bodies that have a unique and combined importance in the realization of this event. They are: performer, projected bodies, the body of music, the individual bodies making up the audience, the body of audience as a whole and the suggested bodies from the installation.

The performer's role is to remind us of our mortality and connection to mankind via his body's ability to demonstrate birth, love, fear and death. The projected body's ephemeral essence and dreamlike quality arouses our awareness of time and space stimulating a feeling of synchronicity to mankind past and present. I call it a sentiment of immortality but Edgar de Bruyne (1898- 1959) perhaps said it clearer when he said, "the exercise of knowledge creates relationships, continuity and emotional attachments and allows us to live longer, because we don't just remember our own life but also those of others." Ted Stoffer

choreography, stage: Ted Stoffer/APHASIA DANCE COMPANY
performance: Ted Stoffer, Antonella Cusimano
interactive video: Chris Ziegler
video recordings: N0!3, Chris Ziegler
sound: Johan van Kreij
light, technical support: Chris Francois

Production: DANCECITY, Newcastle (UK), Arts Council of England, Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK)