Is this is a dance?
Contemporary dance (2022)
Photo by Rocio Chacón
When you skip down the street or turn on the spot for no reason; when you stamp your feet in rage or throw your arms in the air in joy… Have you ever wondered 'is this a dance'?
Eva Recacha and Lola Maury of LAVAELO, explore this question by letting their bodies take the lead, and imagination run riot through playful games and endless questions. Expect energetic movements and abrupt pauses, whales, dinosaurs, turning planets and talking computers in absurd situations! with a bit of contemplation on the side.
This is a show for anyone who has ever found joy in mindlessly moving to music like nobody's watching.
The work exists in 4 different versions, English, Bengali, Flemish and Catalan and it is currently being translated into French and Spanish.
CREDITS
- Co-choreographers: Eva Recacha & Lola Maury
- Sound: Alberto Ruiz Soler
- Lighting Design: Ben Moon
- Set and Costume design: Kate Lane
- Performance: Eva Recacha & Lola Maury
- Co-writers: Alberto Ruiz Soler, Eva Recacha, Lola Maury, Michael Crowe
- Children's Voices: Unai Ospina Recacha, Arin Ospina Recacha
- Education Consultant and Exhibition Curator: Michael Crowe
- Production Manager: Chris Burr
- Producers: The Place & Lavaleo
Index
PERFORMANCE
- SUR
- La Intérprete
- The Picnic
- Estudios Elementales
- Because I Can
- Is this is a dance?
- Written in the body
- Empire of a faun imaginary
- Unbroken
- BAL: Pride and Disappointment
- The Passion of Andrea 2
- Brouhaha
- Die or Run
- Aftermath
- Andante
- Figurines
- Two to tune
- Idiot-syncrasy
- Easy Rider
- The wishing well
- TAME GAME
- Begin to begin
- CITY