ilDance celebrates 10-year anniversary with BACK2BACK tour
In celebration of 10 years of activity, ilDance will tour an evening of two new works 'BACK2BACK’ by directors and choreographers Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer.
'Schism’ and ‘Something to do, someone to love, something to look forward to’ are the upcoming productions featured in a six-performance tour taking place from 28 September until 6 October.
10 years on since the Gothenburg-based dance company presented its first work, SOD, at Atalante, BACK2BACK will celebrate the milestone with a double-header of multidisciplinary dance works.
The tour will begin at Stockholm’s Telefonfabriken, presented in Collaboration with Stockholm Fringe Festival’s Arena STOFF with two dates on 28 and 29 September.
A long-term partner and presenter of ilDance’s work, Säter, is next on the tour with Folkets Hus the venue on 1 October, preceded by a Gaga/people class for those who would like to move with Lee Brummer before enjoying the performances.
Then it is off to the west coast for the final stretch of the tour, performing at Regionteater Väst in Uddevalla on October, immediately followed by two nights at the splendid setting of the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg to conclude the tour.
Limited tickets for all six performances are available now here.
Schism
by Israel Aloni and cast
Schism is a multidisciplinary dance work, created by Israel Aloni and cast, that explores our acceptance of the limits of existence and how it affects our perception of the world.
Schism deals with the notion of borders and how they impact the conceptualisation of the world within the hu-WO-man experience. As a gender-fluid individual who is also diasporic-nomadic Jew, Aloni takes on the challenge to describe the world by alternative means.
Schism takes on the challenge of describing the world around us by alternative means - the blurred boundaries between citizenship and prison, between desire and obsession, between reason and madness, between us and them? The intimate performance takes place in a unique eye-shaped space where there is a blurred boundary between the audience and participants.
Note: Schism includes moments in which the performers appear topless.
Schism | Photo: Hedda Axelsson
Something to do, someone to love, something to look forward to
by Lee Brummer and cast
A new multidisciplinary work which advances conversions of movement and text mediation in a performance context. Lee Brummer, together with the cast develops a unique and brave language which utilises particular and articulated movements with spoken text. Both are equally important for the creation of the dramatic content of the piece. The piece sits on the exciting border between contemporary dance and physical theatre and presents a new threshold of possibilities as the two mediums intertwine.
Gordon Livingstone M.D. writes: The three components of happiness are something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.
Based on an interview of one woman's life story, Brummer and the performers tell the personal tale about the fight for a better future and what one individual went through to find it. The story includes her search for safety and health, fighting for her family and for herself in a new context, while constantly having to prove her worth and gain trust over and over again. This is a story about the somethings to do, the someones to love and the things there are yet to look forward to.
Note: The spoken text delivered in the work (script based on the original interview) is in English.
Something to do, someone to love, something to look forward to | Photo: Nikola Stankovic
BACK2BACK tour details
Telefonfabriken, Stockholm - presented by Arena STOFF
28 September at 19:00 hrs
29 September at 19:00 hrs
Folkets Hus, Säter
1 October at 19:00 hrs
Regionteater Väst, Uddevalla
4 October at 18:00 hrs
Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg
5 October at 18:00 hrs
6 October at 19:00 hrs
Limited tickets for all six performances are available now here.
BACK2BACK image | Created by Thelusa Studio