With a wink to Charles Bukowski’s cult character Henry Chinaski, choreographer Kylie Walters coaxes seven testosterone-crazed men to live through an evening of debauchery and revelation. Read more …
Trapped in a rock-band’s home studio as they try to finish their new album, this live concert/show collides virtuoso Belgian rock duo I Love Sarah’s (Jeroen Stevens/Rutger De Brabander) scorching math rock with five superb Scottish performers (David Hughes Dance) amongst copious amounts of bravaderie and chaos.
On stage, a homemade, squat-style space has been flung together, decked out with a drum kit and the musicians’ instruments.
This place is like a drop-in center, a halfway house for low lifes to hang out, play, dance and dream – or maybe hallucinate.
Low-fi beginnings become hi-fi horrors as the fine line between recognizable every day reality and bizarre fictive world is trampled.
The rock-den sessions become a playing field for old grievances, one-upmanship and reconciliations.
Vicious drumming, cutting wit and cunning moves form a microcosm of manhood stretching from juvenile misbehaviour to sublime creative insight.
Chiseled beauty from the sweat covered wreckage of the night.
If this has anything to say at all, it is simply that dance, in all its fiery, bold and bombastic attitude, can be for blokes, too.
There are very few moments when all, or indeed, any of the five talented male dancers in the Chinaski Sessions really cut loose and give more than a glimpse of their particular strengths or individual styles.
Kylie Walters on her new work with David Hughes Dance
The Chinaski Sessions at Brunton Theatre
Chinaski Sessions brings rock energy to contemporary dance
On Tour, from Saturday October 13, 2012, until Saturday November 10, 2012.
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