Holly Blakey A Wound With Teeth + Phantom
What if memory loss held a potential of creativity? Holly Blakey taps into her own experience of forgetting to create a work that questions our ability to remember, imagine and invent, at the boundaries of rationality and irrationality. In a world both terrifying and perverse, to struggle for our own survival also means to create stories.
Phantom :
With 10 dancers performing a choreography bordering on the ritual, Holly Blakey explores a particularly traumatic experience of her life’s journey: her miscarriage. In collaboration with Emma Chopova and Laura Lowena, founders of the brand Chopova Lowena and over a composition by the musician Gwilym Gold.
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30min (A Wound With Teeth) + 30min (Phantom)
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20h30
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19h30
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19h30
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17h00
One ticket for both shows
Inspired by so-called social dances, which play a role in a context of socialization, ceremony or competition, choreographer and director Holly Blakey conceives performances both personal and collective. Her work was noticed early on by the music and fashion world, and the Londoner has collaborated with the likes of Rosalía or Florence / The Machine. She presents two pieces here, both of which were written for 10 performers. Phantom (2001) has them perform in multicolored leotards, caught up in the tribal rhythm of the super-electric soundtrack by composer Gwilym Gold. Flowing collective movements mingle with shuddering seated bodies – an inspiration based on the choreographer’s miscarriage when the piece was commissioned by the London Contemporary Dance School – a sort of ritualistic invocation of something that does not happen. The new piece A Wound With Teeth draws upon a period when Blakey lost her memory. Conceived as a nursing rhyme, the piece utilizes the pleasure of repetition and summons a fantastic and often frightening world over live music played by Gwilym Gold.
Vincent Théval