Knots
Irish dance theatre company set to tie The Lowry in Knots...
KNOTS
By CoisCéim Dance Theatre
The Lowry, Thu 22 & Fri 23 November 2007
Press Night: Thu 22 November
One of Ireland’s leading dance companies, CoisCéim, bring their multi-award winning production Knots to The Lowry on Thu 22 & Fri 23 November. The show is generally regarded as one of the best and most original dance theatre shows in Ireland, winning Best Production at the Dublin Fringe Festival and a Scotsman Fringe First award in Edinburgh in 2006.
Directed by virtuoso choreographer Liam Steel of Stan Won’t Dance, this text-meets-movement dance theatre show untangles the complexity of human relationships by juxtaposing brutal and high-octane choreography with the insightful text of Scottish psychoanalyst R.D. Laing.
In a 90-minute series of vignettes, dancers David Bolger (Artistic Director of CoisCéim), Jen Fleenor,Geir Hytten, Eddie Kay,Emma O’Kane and Diane O’Keeffe take audiences on a trip through the minefield of relationships. Through a series of passionate physical and verbal confrontations the dancers work to unravel the twists, turns and complications inherent when we entangle our life and body with someone else’s and the sad, insidious patterns our minds and hearts are compelled to repeat forever.
CoisCéim has produced world-class dance theatre for the past 11 years and has a reputation for creating quirky theatre that often has a unique take on love and relationships. CoisCéim has danced its way into the hearts of audiences across Ireland and Europe and is sure to get crowds talking when it comes to The Lowry.
“completely seductive” The Guardian
“the most impressively staged physical theatre around” Scotland on Sunday
Posted on Wednesday, 31 October 2007 under Press Theatre Press