Last Shelter
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Last Shelter is a performance experiment exploring the enduring human desire to build something together.
The piece unfolds uniquely at each performance. Teetering at the edge of what could be in an ever-shifting environment, this choreography highlights the velocity and precision of each dancer’s decision-making from moment to moment, somewhere between agency and collective will. After a year of working invisibly through a pandemic, it is an act of intimacy to witness the labour and desire of the dancer attending to themselves and one another, in their practice.
With rigour and care, the dancers surrender to and grapple with time, place and fate, finding temporary balance in provisional structures and makeshift meanings. With sound score by composer Tian Rotteveel, light design by Zeynep Kepekli, and set/costume design by Nicolai Hart-Hansen.
Built on actions, not acting, this composition and decomposition of scenarios is strangely fascinating: the form is clear, the content is not. The ravishing, enigmatic sonorities of Tian Rotteveel’s unobtrusive score – itself a series of scenarios in sound – hold the mood of mystery. ★★★★
Watch our Bessie nominated performance filmed at BAM: BAM2022!
Production details
Set / Costumes
Nicolai Hart-Hansen
Composer
Tian Rotteveel
Lighting Design
Zeynep Kepekli
Photograhy
Camilla Greenwell
Film
Dorothy Allen-Pickard
Audio description
Caroline Burn
Co-commissioned by
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Year
2021
Running Time
40 mins
Suitability
12+ (some explicit language)