Briefly About 'The Envelope'..

The stimulus behind 'The Envelope' was initally created by David Parsons, when he was reading a magazine and an advertisement fell out, on the advertisement, there was an image of a foreign woman wearing a headress. Due to both the image of the woman, and the idea of the falling advertisement, Parsons began to consider ideas of passing something along between dancers and creating movement based on this idea. He then suddenly thought of an Evelope. The Envelope is a humourous dance work, which has a total of seven dancers, which are four females and three males. Throughout this dance the 'envelope' is used to initiate movements, as well as having a mysterious role of making both the audience and the dancers wonder what it contains.