Under the pressure of sound and light iam follows a group of dancers as they discover the very nature of one another through the fabric of their own personal histories. Intimate duets weave between each other probing for surfaces and space: taking the audience on a journey through a world of fractured timelines charged with clarity and power. Read more …
Errol White Company is an articulate and committed ensemble, producing work of a high quality with an emphasis on authentic movement vocabulary. Using the vocabulary of the body as an abstract language to engage and connect emotionally with the audience.
There is much to please the eye even if there is still some work to be done on getting the whole ensemble to meet and sustain the incisive crispness demanded by the choreography.
There are times in the piece when the dancers move together as one, executing fast-paced unity in time with Tiago Cerqueira’s captivating sound design...what was lacking here was a theatrical edge, something a more dynamic lighting design could have bolstered.
Mesmerising and unsettling, Errol White and Davina Givan’s new piece for a company of five female and three male dancers lulls and allures in equal measure during its brief life.
This is an effective show and what an audience takes from it will be very much down to their own experience and how well they think it translates human emotion. But what’s certainly true is that they will be left with something to talk about after the lights go up.
Errol White Company presents new group work IAM
Interview: Errol White
On Tour, from Friday March 2, 2012, until Saturday March 31, 2012.
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