With a title that evokes the Patrick Marber play about the desire for yet failure to achieve intimacy, Thomas Noone breaks apart its 2-couple dynamic with a six dancer piece, saying that it is the audience in this case that he wants to get closer to. The public sit on both sides as well as… Read more »
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Lali Ayguadé’s ‘iUanMi’ – Four Dancers and a Funeral
A funeral as the setting for the second dance piece in a trilogy is an intriguing departure point in this new creation by the choreographer Lali Ayguadé. iUanMi, like its predecessor Kokoro, is a contemporary dance piece for four performers that explores internal and external worlds and the transformative relationship between them. An enormous curtain… Read more »
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: “Breaking ourselves is the only way to grow”
Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui talks about Fractus V, a contemporary dance piece currently on European tour, that explores the complexities of communicating in a world divided by prejudice and swamped in misinformation. Inspired by the ways of thinking of Noam Chomsky, afflicted by the recent violence in Paris and Brussels, the 75-minute piece brings five dancers of radically… Read more »