7 new dance & moving image commissions across the West Midlands: July to November 2007 including - Bound the Herbert, Coventry 19 July - 12 August  This is a dance film which explores the important bond that exists between a mother and child. Its starting point is the stage in a child's development when they realise that they exist separately from their mother. A complex relationship develops as the child feels a strong urge for independence while still needing the comfort and security provided by their mother. The simple idea of 'gesture' is played with in the dancers' movements: gestures are mirrored, copied and repeated from the child to the adult and then back to the child. This new work will build upon themes developed in the film Aureole, a previous collaboration between choreographer Andrea Barzey, film artist Katy Connor and sound artist Helena Gough. Co-commissioned by Fracture and The Herbert.   Disposable Love Solihull Arts Complex 10 September - 27 October Disposable Love is a dance and video installation that explores the nature of our consumer society and its relationship with love. In our fast paced lives, where the emphasis is on ease of consumption and disposability, are our relationships with others becoming the same? Disposable Love takes humourous and touching anecdotes of lost-love from a cross section of the Solihull Community to create an engaging exhibit. Vistors to the exhibition are invited to bring notes for their loved ones that can be added to the growing installation. See Also - Caroline Bridges - Past Works       Elsewhere   The Edge Saturday 15th September 7.00pm -  9.30pm Artist Talk: Ann Walker, Martin Clarke, Polly Hudson Saturday 22nd September   2.00pm - 3.00pm   Show continues until the 26th September 4.00pm -7.00pm Monday to Friday; 10.00am - 5pm Saturday and Sunday Visual and live Artist Ann Walker continues her on-going exploration into the language of the body in this new installation, Elsewhere.  Working in collaboration with sound artist Martin Clarke, Walker sets out to integrate sound and silence, exploring the spaces of language.  The work features Walker in a conversation with her sister filmed on location at Harlech Beach Wales, a place they regularly visited in childhood.  In this work Walker uses the mouth as a camera enabling her to join the physical body with the act of seeing which in-turn references memories rooted in the body.  Standing or sitting at the waters edge opposite each other silences and movements replace words, whilst the meeting of environmental sounds touch and overlap.  This leaves the viewer to interpret the dialogue taking place, through the intensities of silence movement and sound.  The work attempts to expose the space of language, which imposes order, draws boundaries and classifies but also seems to remain separate from the world of lived experience.   For further information: www.ann-walker.co.uk   Photograph: Steven Davies (www.filmcafe.co.uk)       Multiple Body   Vivid, Birmingham Saturday 15th September Multiple Body is a delicately intimate and tender multi-screen installation that continues and extends the ongoing artistic collaboration between Polly Hudson and Zena Watt, with sound by Justin Wiggan.   The new work is a continued exploration of working from image and from dream states, and with autobiography that somehow speaks universally. Images of the body as landscape, and a gentle melancholy beauty of the exposure of the body through a mapping of stories stored on and in it, are unveiled.  Juxtapositions between cultural shifts in images of women’s bodies in pornography and the popular media with real women’s experiences of desire, love, and loss are key.        Pure Cinema Rugby Art Gallery & Museum 20 September - 11 November Filmmaker Michael Baig-Clifford and video artist Ravi Deepres continue their exploration of the area between art and narrative film in Pure Cinema. This piece takes the notion of a 'classical painting' being a chosen point in a narrative or a moment in time, and explores what happened before, as well as the point of 'stillness' itself. Using actors and the latest technology available in film and TV, Pure Cinema will explore the conventions common to both cinema and painting, stretching right back to Vermeer. Pure Cinema is co-commissioned by Rugby Art Gallery and Museum and Fracture (Dance and Moving Image initiative)