The Middle Ages (2015)
The Middle Ages is a performance for five dancers about a time which is inherently ‘middle’- ambiguous, fluid, either both-and or neither-nor. Through an (over-the-top) use of costumes and a rigorous investment in movement, the performance attempts to occupy an ambiguous place and time, where historical references overlap and fold over one another. The performers' time-travel through the history of movement becomes increasingly layered and abstracted, while the speed of the performance, or rather, time in general becomes generally warped. Actions and events are compressed and stretched by the performers, lending an uncertainty to the time which the performance speaks of and the timing in which it occurs. Drawing on sources as far-fetched as time travel, historical costume dramas and reenactments, and the theoretical physics of the uncertainty of time itself, The Middle Ages asks, not what are we, but when are we? When is now?
Previous Dates: November 21,22 October 9, April 29-30, 2015 March 25-26, 2015 March 12-14, 2015 (Premiere) Concept/ Choreography- Andros Zins-Browne The Middle Ages is made possible with support from Départs/ European commission Culture Program |
