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"...the range of sinuous, explosive, dynamic and controlled movements showed a scope of imagination and choreographic skill..."
Two solos firmly rooted in movement, performativity and curiosity. But what similarities do they echo and share? What are their particular distinctions? Where do they part and where do they come together? Created from different themes and research and with different intentions, will their similarities and particular distinctions and difference help or hinder the performance of them one after the other? Will they belong together, blend or discourse completely from one another and will the performance highlight or distinguish their echoing of the other? Come along and find out for yourself!
Nor I is a solo work based on the use of stillness and repetition in Samuel Beckett’s work. Investigating the impact of repetitions on the human body and its traces in stillness, each movement builds upon the next, yet remains caught in an almost claustrophobic state. Reminiscent of a character in Beckett's texts, it leaves the performer lingering between cosmic calm and cosmic chaos, almost as if caught in her own head, repeatedly finding herself repeating stillness, repeatedly repeating.
Negotiating space is a solo that explores fluids and its affect on the human body when in dysfunction. Focusing on the strands of “no space”, stuck energy, transformation and struggle, the choreography has a repetitious pattern to it, juxtaposing the underling quality of fluidity. Repetitious almost as in a spiralling sense of the urge to completion, to push through the stuck phase to enable transformation into the next. As if spirals are circles trying to complete themselves.
Light technician Kevin Tran
Credits Nor I
Created and performed by My Johansson
Costume Carina Johansson, My Johansson
Filmmaker Todd MacDonald
Photo Eleanor Chownsmith, Stephen Wright
Thanks to Kitty Graham, Kirsty Alexander, Gitta Wigro, all of the Independent Dance and Siobhan Davies Dance team, Marina Collard, Camille Desmarest, Michelle S. Lynman, Mark Richardsson, Rhys Williamson, Beatriz López de Priego, Charlie Hazlem, Ríona O’Dowd, Christopher H Lieberman
Commissioned by Independent Dance and Siobhan Davies Dance
With further support from The Midi Music company, Frilagret,Västra Fors Massage, Fresh Ground Battersea, The International Dance Programme – The Swedish Arts Grants Committeé’s International Programme for Dance Artists, Riverside Studios, South East Dance
Credits Negotiating Space
Created and performed by My Johansson
Sound score The inner rhythm of the body and the outer sounds of the environment
Film Simon Alleyne-Living Witness
Photos Josh Tomalin, Simon Alleyne-Living Witness
Landscaped for 2015 special edition by Zoi Dimitriou and Mata Sakka
Light design for 2016 special edition Donald Hutera
Scenography for 2018 Xarkis version Koilani Village and Ayia Mavri Winery
Special thanks to Kate Johnson, Clare Baker, Jonathan Caruana, Victoria Salmon, Monica Alcazar-Duarte, Pedro Siammas, Valentin Musteata, Michael Breaky, Logan B, Mark Richardsson, Rhys Williamson, Beatriz López de Priego, Charlie Hazlem, Ríona O’Dowd, Christopher H Lieberman
With support from The Midi Music Company, Ayia Mavri Winery, Riverside Studios, South East Dance