description
The initiation to this political ritual, an innocent smile that mutates into a horrific grin. Two bodies, hypersensitive, travel through shaking, trembling and twitching. They are vulnerable and simultaneously explosive. The Bessie-award winning piece Glory continues to be of rousing intensity, now in its fourth adaptation. Physically unconditional, a naked duet in which Wade and Sindri Runudde live through the brutality that norms exert on the body, to the entraining conceptions of space that Brendan Dougherty’s powerful music evokes. Two bodies offer themselves to a cyclic litany of polar opposites, embodying agony, ecstasy, arrogance and groveling that develops into a shimmering empowerment of non-belonging, in which the forces of shame, remorse, humiliation, intoxication, and submission play out in fluid crashing continuums. Grace is the balance of abandon and command. A naked pilgrimage of oblivion into union.
credits
Concept, Choreography
Jeremy Wade
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Performance
Jeremy Wade, Sindri Runudde
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Music
Brendan Dougherty /
Light
Andreas Harder, Emma Juliard /
Rehearsal Director
Michael Rolnick /
Artistic Support, Assistant
Yoav Admoni
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Production
björn & björn, Darcey Bennett
thanks, production, support
A production by Jeremy Wade.
Supported by the Dance Theater Workshop and the Jerome Foundation’s First Light Program.
With thanks to Springdance and Tanztage Berlin.
The resumption is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
quote
Wade's superiority as a choreographer and dancer consists in densifying the visual language of each movement. (...) Wade's pain became so explicit, it seemed, as if it was conceived. It does not change the fact that it was fantastic to see a dancer who exalts body and dance to a philosophical dimension. Wade transcends aesthetics and shows the brutal discrepancy between the body and the world.
– Sofie Lebuch, DANS – Tidnigen för röelig scenkonst.
