A battered old car drives up with a glare of headlights and thumping music coming from inside its metal body. Someone who carries multiple identities inside them climbs out to tell their story. It is the story of a search for hope.
The choreographer and dancer Oona Doherty, who is represented with three pieces in the festival as this year’s Spotlight Artist, takes the audience in “Hope Hunt and the Acension into Lazarus” along with her into the world of the working class. The performer morphs from one character to the next. She uses movement, language and sound to quote blurred projections of masculinity, morality and nostalgia. Here “Hope Hunt” treads a fine balance between comedy and tragedy, while at the same time revealing our fundamental need for love irrespective of class or background. In her solo piece, Oona Doherty creates a complex portrait of class and gender, in which violence and tenderness, sadness and joy, despair and utopia are interwoven on a variety of levels.
Infos
Language: English
Duration: 50 minutes
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Choreography: Oona Doherty
Production & Diffusion: Gabrielle Veyssiere
Performer: Sati Veyrunes
DJ and Car Driver: Maxime Jerry Fraisse
Lighting: Lisa Marie Barry
A Production by OD Works - Gabrielle Veyssiere and Oona Doherty. SUPPORTED BY Dance Resource Base, Art Council of Northern Ireland, The MAC Theatre – Belfast, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, The British Council, Prime Cuts Production. Selected for a European Tour by Aerowaves in 2017.
Tanzfestival Rhein-Main is sponsored by Energieversorgung Offenbach AG (EVO).
Die Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, ein Projekt von Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm und Hessischem Staatsballett, wird ermöglicht durch den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain und gefördert vom Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, dem Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst und der Stiftungsallianz [Aventis Foundation, Crespo Foundation, Hans Erich und Marie Elfriede Dotter-Stiftung, Dr. Marschner Stiftung, ODDO BHF Stiftung, Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main].