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hush/to
premiere april 2008
group work for 6
dancers
hush is a
pure-movement piece to be co-choreographed by charles o. anderson,
south african choreographer
vincent mantsoe, and japanese
choreographer
kota yamazaki as part of dance
theatre X's creative residency at the
painted bride art center from
november 2007 to april 2008. anderson has become increasingly
invested in working in a global/international context: collaborating
with indigenous african, asian & european artists to expand the
creative range of possibilities in his kinetic storytelling approach
to choreography, and to further evolve dtX’s choreographic mission
of exploring global identities through fusions of movement
traditions. this piece with six dancers performed in silence
is inspired by a yoruba folktale about the orisha (god) eshu. the
premise of the work deals with meeting at the threshold of the many
doorways and paths that make up the human journey of life.
eshu owns this threshold and, being a trickster god, can light the
path and make passage easy, or block the way, creating an
environment evocative of a global-age babel.
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