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- “An intoxicating, mesmerising, often laugh-out-loud interrogation of space”
Salient (NZ)
Winner of Best Choreography by an Established Artist or Company at the 2008 Tempo Awards, this intoxicating dance production is a moving exploration of the search for calm amid life's chaos.
The brainchild of New Zealand-born choreographer Claire O'Neil, this adrenalin-charged work has evolved from her interest in random events, journeys of survival, and the practice of defence and attack. Relationships between characters and states of emotions morph fluidly in MTYland, highlighting how unexpected collisions can sometimes result in the most beautiful transformations.
Vocal and physical pandemonium can ensue at any moment as the dancers boldly move from mighty to vulnerable, in the search for genuine gestures and states in dance performance. Hiding a protest against war and violence, MTYland searches for emptiness in a world already fit to burst.
"In nothing there is everything...we are making the rules"
Choreography: Claire O'Neil
Sound design: Herman Martin, featuring music from Battles
Lighting designer: Maia Whittet
Company director: Deirdre Tarrant
Image: Dean Zillwood/Chrometoaster
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Review
NZ Herald Feb 28, 2010
Claire O'Neill's work sits nicely alongside fellow dance theatre work Sutra in artistic director Lissa Twomey's opening weekend festival program. Both explore the individual's struggle - and the respective Belgium based choreographers' own struggle - through movement to find a space within which they can be comfortable.
