Fri 22 Jan 2016
The Place
Resolution!
Feet Off The Ground Dance Éter
Feet
Off The Ground Dance opened the night’s triple bill
with an intense and exciting performance of Éter.
Four women journey through a bleak landscape of gently pulsating lights and
electrical whirring. Their organic contact improvisation sets them apart from
the other acts of the night (which include Maria
Lothe/Rachel Blomberg and Unity
Dance Company UK). Being an all-female company, dancers Lucia Chocarro, Robyn Holder, Sophie Thorpe
and Patricia Zafra prove that femininity
and strength are synonymously connected.
Visually, Feet Off The Ground Dance are incredibly exciting to watch. They slip
seamlessly from moments of unison to intricate pairings, intertwining limbs and
locking foreheads. The tone changes as live musician Panos Chountoulidis’ score intensifies. The women are like beasts.
We can see the exhaustion in their pained expressions, as they hunt and chase
each other through the space.
Interestingly, it is a non-contact martial
arts passage, which interrupts the flow of intimacy that closes the work. The
sudden physical distance between the dancers rounds off Éter quite nicely- despite us wanting a little more from the work.
Using repetition and Chountoulidis’
drilling score, Feet Off The Ground
Dance create a truly powerful work that highlights and draws upon the
dancers’ technical skill and obvious sense of drive.
Maya Pindar
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