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Accumulation V, 1980

Documentation of the choreography for five dancers and five cars
Unknown photographer
Françoise Sullivan’s personal papers

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Documentation of the choreography for five dancers and five cars
Unknown photographer
Françoise Sullivan’s personal papers

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Poster announcing Accumulation VI on top of Mount Royal on October 29, finally produced on November 9, 1980, Montreal
Françoise Sullivan’s personal papers

Accumulation V, 1980

Choreography for 5 dancers and 5 automobiles, objects, sound
Parking lot in Old Montreal
Documentation. Françoise Sullivan’s personal papers

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Executed in a parking lot in Old Montreal, the choreography Accumulation V started with a circular movement of five automobiles with radios tuned in to different stations. After driving around the lot in a ring three times, the cars stopped long enough to let out dancers, who in turn took up the circular movement. Eventually, only one car remained, making circles around the dancers for an hour and a half. As the dancers accumulated gestures between the centre and the circumference and turned around each other, they carried boxes on their heads, manoeuvring around suitcases, sacks and objects lying nearby on the ground, and headed toward a wall with an obstructed door. The choreography was based on an interplay of movement and circularity. By means of the circle, a predominant figure in Sullivan’s work, the artist established a connection between the inner and outer worlds.