The invitation to create a solo for the first time in Candoco’s 20 year history immediately sparked a curiosity about how the power of the individual could be a choreographic subject. What, after all, is the individual or self? What if the boundaries of it are mobile rather than fixed? And what if we have the ability to move those boundaries through a constant process of negotiation and exchange with one another? If mind and body are the same physical entity, then isn’t this ongoing evolution of self ultimately a complex series of physical acts? What if all of me is only dancing when I am moving not just my muscles and bones, but also the boundaries of my self?
Matthias Sperling
Concept and Direction: Matthias Sperling
Choreography: Matthias Sperling in collaboration with Vicky Malin
Costume Designer: Jack Galloway
Costume Maker: Sabrina Cuniberto
Lighting Designer: Sam Barrett
Music: Scanner, Matthias Sperling, Vicky Malin – Available on itunes (search for Vicky Malin ‘This is it’)
Dancer: Vicky Malin