Choreographer: Iratxe Ansa
Two woman enter a space. Their way of moving suggests a conversation that began a long time ago. We see them hovering, embracing absent bodies. It is not clear if these bodies are something ancient or of the present. The two women move with a sense of unity, they contaminate each other. They share bones, blood and bodies. They play a game of life and death, they imitate and are opposed; push, hold, and manipulate. We do not know yet where this game will lead them.
Dos Cuerpos takes shape from these concepts that choreographer, Iratxe Ansa, has been developing in the last few years:
The body. The body is what all beings share, before anything else. We are thinking beings; we feel; we communicate we feed; live and we move; express ourselves; we identify amongst others. Above all, we are flesh, blood, bones, skin, nails, sweat… We are our body.//The absent body. What is it that provokes a sensation when another body is close to us, to see it move, to smell its scent? Each in his way, sharing the same base emotion,knows( without knowing) that other must feel similar to how we feel. What we feel having – or no having- a body near us, characterises us as human.//The pollution. Iratxe uses the word pollution when an idea or a feeling enters our minds/ bodies and affects us so much that we being to work differently…
premiere date 16–18 Sep 2021 | Goodman Arts Centre Black Box | Nah Jieying, Klievert Jon Mendoza, Goh Jia Yin & Maybelle Lek
T.H.E Dance Company is supported by the National Arts Council under the Major Company Scheme for the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2023.
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