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As color slips into darkness, we revive the archaic and press it up against the contemporary. We construct a gathering which will house an ecstatic world, one which looks sideways through time: simultaneously into the past and future.  Through densely layered rhythms of dance and music seen through flickering light, the audience is invited to circle around a ritual scene, one that proposes alternate forms of relationality, participation, and co-creation. 

The question that underpins this work is: How to exit? How can we disavow our current societal framework that requires participation within violent frames of conformity and inequality, predicated on exploitation and extraction? How can life be more than this? 

Credits

Choreography + Performance
Layton Lachman

Collaborating Performers
Cru Encarnação, Polina Sonis, Cajsa Godée, emeka ene

Sound
Samuel Hertz

Percussion
Sara Neidorf

Lighting Design
Dani Paiva de Miranda

Coproduction in Residency
O Espaço do Tempo

© Óscar Barbosa

Layton Lachman is an artist based in Berlin. They create performances which channel experiential physical practices into immersive, sensory complex worlds. Utilizing a diverse range of performance contexts, Layton’s choreographies are seen on stage, in galleries, museums, and in public space. These works include voice, spatialized sound, video, and intense physicality that once combined are often distinguished by their surrealist, dreamlike qualities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Layton Lachman (DE/US)

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