Spotted - T1706162394In SPOTTED, the performers' bodies are captured as overflowing containers. So full that they can no longer digest, make sense of or work through all the external information they receive and everything that pervades them without any subjective control or awareness. Numb and leaking, on the verge of passing as still lives, the performers make us question topics that relate to us directly, such as privacy, intimacy and isolation. SPOTTED is a grimace of discontinuity; a glimpse of perfect individuality; a perversion where the achievers are in a state of spiritual absence; an investigation of animated objects unable to overcome their singular being; this separation or this very drive - the constituent execution or exhaustion. | |
| 3 May 17 to 4 May 17 | The Tramway, Glasgow :: V621 listing details L0418982691 |
Variations on Closer - T1769832045UK Premiere. Running time: 50mins (no interval). Showing her work for the first time in London, Margret Sara Guojonsdottir presents a piece of dance questioning what it means to be engaged in the act of watching. Best known for her performances with international choreographers such as Jan Fabre and Gisele Vienne, this year she has been commissioned by Cullberg Ballet to create a new version of her solo performance Soft Target. In Variations on Closer, the audience comes face to face with three charismatic female performers. They explore different levels of physical closeness between themselves as individuals and their observers. Audience and performers alike are offered a chance to reassess what it feels like to be observed, breaking traditional theatrical conventions. Confronted with the effect of the gaze, we are invited to enter an unsettling moment of empathy, attraction, intimacy and alienation. The performance is accompanied by an enigmatic soundtrack by a pioneer of experimental electronic music, Peter Rehberg (known as PITA), the owner and artistic director of the record label MEGO. Variations on Closer is an intriguing and intimate theatrical experience from one of Iceland's most daring dance makers. | |
| 2 Oct 14 to 3 Oct 14 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L0727070233 |
