Dance
FRAMEWORK
“FRAMEWORK IS A NEW CREATION OF DANCE THEATRE. AN EVENING FILLED WITH SURPRISES AND PLOT TWISTS. FRAMEWORK BREAKS WITH THE TRADITIONAL NARRATIVE STRUCTURE AS WE FOLLOW THE JOURNEY OF HELEN, A WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY TOTAL STRANGERS AND WHO FORMS AN ALLIANCE WITH HER CAPTORS OUT OF FEAR AND LONELINESS. AS SHE SPENDS MORE TIME WITH HER KIDNAPPERS AND HOPE OF RESCUE IS FADES FROM HER MIND, HELEN FINDS HERSELF COMING TO ENJOY HER CAPTOR’S COMPANY.”
- Kristian Lever
Winterreise
Working with John Neumeier, this piece was adapted from an existing choreography based on Gute Nacht from Schubert’s Winterreise. Using electronics to accompany the singer, the piece depicts a man captured and immobilized by his sexual frustration and the passage of time.
An Intimate Distance
Winning the prestigious Erik Bruhn Prize in 2019 for Best New Work, this piece created in partnership with Kristian Lever shows two two lovers trapped in a whirlwind, swirling around each other without being able to properly connect. Kristian’s unique use of lighting creates a scope much bigger than a pas de deux.
Etude Sur Pointe
Working closely with Lynne Charles, former principal dancer of the Hamburg Ballet, this piece was adapted and expanded from an existing choreography set to Satie’s Gymnopédie. Depicting the struggles every dancer goes through working the bar day after day, the solo dancer becomings increasingly frustrated with their work until they impale themselves on the bar.
And the People Stayed Home
Created during the height of the pandemic in cooperation with Natalia Horecna, using a combination of live electronics, electric cello, violin, viola and recorded audio. A Spoken text is repeated throughout the performance from a Moroccan account of the Spanish flu. The dancers do not touch and become more and more isolated as the piece progresses.