A corner of a building is visible at the scene, or if it is the wall of a dressing room. Grey concrete slabs, a aprikosorange stripe at the bottom, some attach klätterväggsgrepp clinging upwards. In the fund a blank storbildstavla on high legs, looking towards the distance. Stephanie Rauchs scenography breathe school, public place in the samhällslandskapet, a place for recreation and information. For the people in the group.
And a place where something all the time soon to happen. ”On the cusp” refers to a point when something just is about to change to something else. There is a strong hopeful theme in the work in which the choreographer Ian Kaler has created for the cullberg ballet, which had its world premiere in January at the Tanzquartier Vienna. The promising and confident the opportunities that lie in change, transformation and transition are manifested in the rörelsesekvenserna that flows across the stage in a workshopliknande style.
playing the 14 dancers through various activities and formations: jumps rope, climbs on the wall, floor and each other, dansbattlar, synkdansar, stand and hang. Here are streetiga elements but the common language is modern dance. The individual and group alternating impact on each other is examined in the constant transitions. A small movement starts somewhere and spreads in the community or attend a kroppskänsla of all at once. There is an improvised tone, a sign that the dancers are co-creators.
the Dance and the music picks up the concerns and processes it. There is a hierarchy? Fits all in? Can we be different together?
In his artistic team have austrian Kaler collected a bunch of meme-makers to a large extent based in Berlin and on a foundation of the queer, inclusive, and exploratory practices. Dancer and fashion designer Stéphane Peeps have mixed references to team sports versus individual sports achievements and created the costumes for the various personalities in a close-knit group. Artist and music producer Jam Rostron, with the stage name Planningtorock, runs the dramaturgy forward with its pulsating electronic brassbeats, sometimes alarming, sometimes klubbigt euphoric.
Heath’s footage glimpsed on the big screen and put themselves in the story. Both portrayed the various dancers of the cullberg ballet, is shown both sequences with a group of children. Children laughing, together, children who are solitary and searching with the eyes. These glimpses of other perspectives in the work. A group can define those who are part of it, but also those who are outside.
the Dance and the music picks up the concerns and processes it. There is a hierarchy? Fits all in? Can we be different together? Here glitters a pearl of sadness, fear and loneliness that is wrapped and embraced by the plant’s euphoric hopefulness. The possibility of change can be a comfort. ”On the cusp” is a work which boldly trying, charming, emotionally and physically engaging with something surprisingly hard shimmering inside.
