DAGHDHA DANCE COMPANY
STANDING IN INK
PREMIERED:
18TH MAY 2009, DUBLIN DANCE FESTIVAL, PROJECT ARTS CENTRE
52 MINS; NO INTERVAL
CHOREOGRAPHY: MICHAEL KLIËN
DANCERS: MARK CARBERRY AND LAURA DANNEQUIN
COMPOSITION: VOLKMAR KLIËN
Two dancers on stage. Nothing agreed, nothing set. They are poised to dance together. Carberry and Dannequin, Ireland’s new generation of exceptional dancers, perform this radically fresh, mindful and physical duet.
STANDING IN INK has emerged out of a yearlong conversation between the choreographer and the dancers, systematically examining their own processes of thought, perception and co-existence. Over twelve months they have re-configured how they think about dance, how they think about the other. In performance, they will learn about each other afresh and disclose a new world in dance. Dancing differently to what the eye is used to and choreographed differently to what one would expect, STANDING IN INK is a deceivingly simple duet; yet it carries the potential to spark a subtle revolution in dance
"Dance immerses humanity in mind, into the moving dynamic systems, that hold together the world in which we have our being. The world needs dancers – to sweat, to smell, to think in flesh, to copulate and satisfy themselves, to surrender, to be present for everyone else who is not; to be the embodied evidence and knowledge of a soaring mind – beneath and beyond frames of consciousness, on pathways of the unknown." (Kliën)
