Bare Bones 6
Six stunning dancers and four exciting pieces of dance….
Bare Bones 6
The Lowry, Tue 10 & Wed 11 February 2009
Press night: Tue 10 February, 7pm
Bodies under the microscope, power relationships, and territories colliding head on are all in this high-energy, intensely physical show. Bare Bones 6 treats audiences to an up close and personal experience – seated on all four sides of the performance space as four men and two women blaze across the dance floor choreographed by an international array of dance makers.
Rui Horta’s Container features all six dancers and is created in angular patterns, using space as both a territory to be defended and a place to achieve intimacy with others. What happens when we enter a room and we find it full of people, sharing the space with us, all with their own habits and expectations? And what happens when we enter an empty room, a place waiting to accept others, where there is a sense of something about to happen, and then leave it again?
Rui comments: “I like this 9m x 9m room that was given to me to create my piece; I like its simplicity. Almost no lights and no objects, just the bodies defining and altering space – a place...full of possibilities, full of anticipation.”
Garry Stewart’s Magnification is a piece for three dancers where the inner workings of the body are put under the magnifying glass. Minute bodily functions such as the growth of cells and the stretching of muscles are amplified and explored through inventive choreography and an evocative sound score using Foley sound effects. Beginning with small detailed movements, the work evolves into acts of highly charged physicality as the dancers discover the unlimited functional capabilities of the human body.
Following on from the success of With The Company We Keep (created for the Bare Bones 2006 tour of The 5 Man Show), Artistic Director David Massingham presents a new work called Hinterland – a highly physical piece for all six dancers combining dazzling leaps and lifts.
Straight Talking by Charlotte Vincent is a solo work, a manifesto against convention and one man’s attempt to get beyond the beautiful dance. Awkward and contorted, dancer Robert Clark wrestles with his own physicality to attempt something different.
Posted on Friday, 16 January 2009 under Press Theatre Press