Tordre - T600296557After an epic opening of determinedly false starts a series of impassioned solos follows, but nothing is quite what it seems. Solid sculptures start to move, gentle spinning becomes a dangerous compulsion, and calm is interrupted. It is Annie Hanauer and Lora Juodkaite's distinctive physicalities that finally unite them in these raw and captivating self-portraits, threaded with emotion. French Algerian Rachid Ouramdane is co-director of CCN2-Centre chor?graphique national de Grenoble. His work frequently blurs the lines between dance and documentary, between public performance and private contemplation - achieved here with a refreshing simplicity of means. | |
| 17 Oct 17 | artsdepot, Outer London :: V320 listing details L1862290844 |
Loin...(Far...) - T01304918753This striking piece of contemporary theatre brings together video and audio testimonies in a dark and mesmerising solo performance by the artist himself. Dance rarely deals so directly with the uneasy question of war and violence. Here Ouramdane takes us from his personal experience as the son of Algerian-born parents - immigrants to France and themselves affected by conflict and torture in the 1960s - to the collective story relating to all of us about the nature of identity in our globalised world. Working at the margins of dance, documentary and multimedia art, Ouramdane compels us to face the brutality of colonisation, the complex nature of displacement and the reality of our multilayered contemporary identities. In French and English with subtitles, Loin... 'is an engrossing work of art, devoid of any explicit agenda, frequently ambiguous and often touching on the ineffable - a one-man show about the collective unconscious' (New York Times).Producer L'A. Producer Theatre de la ville a Paris Bonlieu scene nationale d'Annecy Biennale de la danse de Lyon (France)). Performer Rachid Ouramdane. | |
| 7 May 10 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L423634377 |
