Manifestos: Chiron in Aries, Recitals #5 and #6

DATES: 1–2/11 // DOORS: 18.30 // ON STAGE: 19.00 // DURATION: 80 MIN

This new chapter of the Chiron in Aries cycle embarks us in a multilinear, choral choreography, in which each dancer’s individual story line interconnects and depend on one another. Conceived as poetic meditations on the sense of self, the dances carry along the warrior’s will power as much as the traces and scars life imprints in us. Cutting through and razor-sharp versus lush and voluptuous, oscillating between fierce affirmation and determination, surrender and despair, each solo dance becomes a manifesto, landing softly into each other’s bodies like an echo. The piece invents its own mythology and dreams of a world in which the inevitable experience of solitude never translate into isolation and loneliness. Togetherness can heal our deepest wounds.

In astrology, the minor planet Chiron, called after the Centaur also known as “the wounded healer”, represents our deepest wounds and our capacity to heal. The sign Aries represents the ego, willpower, desire and the warrior within us. “

BIO

Frédéric Gies is a dancer and choreographer based in Sweden, presenting their works nationally and internationally in various contexts (dance venues, music festivals and museums). Drawing from their former training in ballet and specific trends of contemporary dance, their dance floor experiences in techno clubs and raves and their study of somatic practices, they approach forms as possibilities rather than constraints. Their practice Technosomatics has encountered a broad international echo.

CREDITS

Choreography : Frédéric Gies Dancers : Frédéric Gies, Andreas Haglund, Elise Brewer, Declan Whitaker Music : Fiedel Lighting Design: Thomas Zamolo Costumes : Grzergoz Matlag Corpoduced by Skogen, Weld, inkonst / residence support by MARC and Skogen / Supported by Kulturrådet, Region Skåne, Malmö stad and Konstnärsnämnden