THESE HORSES
TAKE IT HOME
Performance for studio theatres: 1 hour.
We’ve got a list, the list goes 1-33. It’s 33 ways of saying it, its 33 goes at it, or its 33 questions which we’re now going to try and answer. To do the job we’ve got the three of us, we’ve got a drum kit, a pompom, and some songs on our ipod.
Take it Home is a succession of danced solos punctuated with bursts of furious drumming. One, two, three minute dances, learned, copied, invented, improvised in response to a written list of 33 instructions. It is a dance show that brings together material gathered from music videos, films and popular music. Three performers throw themselves into frenzied movement, soak themselves with water and attempt complex stunts and dance routines.
The material is splintered into pieces, which are played out against a repeated soundtrack of pop songs. These pieces of movement create a shifting score, as references are fused and confused, moves repeated, developed, extended, and as the dancers come up against their technical and physical limitations, loss of energy and imagination. This also sets the scene for unexpected triumphs, second winds, stunts and interpretations.
The piece looks at sentiments of mass culture designed to create personal/public euphoria and presents them as a public act. It brings together the high-production of the movies and of MTV videos and the realities of dancing without the aid of jump cuts, backing dancers and body doubles. It stages the gap between how it feels and how it looks.
INTERVAL (A Piece for Voice and Lightswitch)
SPEAKERS - Performance, photography and the loud page.
