May B
ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, Auckland
09/03/2011 - 12/03/2011
Production Details
"This piece based on the writings of Samuel Beckett, whose work contradictsin its theatrical movement and atmosphere the physical and aesthetic performance of a dancer, has enabled us to lay the grounds for a secret decyphering of our most intimate, hidden and ignored gestures.
To succeed in unveiling the tiny or spectacular gestures of the many unnoticeable and unconspicious lives in which waiting and "not quite still"stillness create a void, a huge nothingness, a silent space filled with the hesitations. When Beckett’s characters yearn for stillness, they cannot help moving; be it a little or a lot, they move.
In this essentially theatrical work, the point, for us, was less to develop words and speech than blown-up form of movement, thus seeking the meeting point between movement applied to theater on the one hand, and dance and choreographic language on the other.
– Maguy Marin
Dancers: Ulises Alvarez, Romain Bertet, Teresa Cunha, Léa Helmstädter, Mayalen Otondo, Jeanne Vallauri, Matthieu Perpoint, Grégory Robardet, Ennio Sammarco, Vania Vaneau
1 hour 30 mins
Intensely disciplined performance
Review by Bernadette Rae 10th Mar 2011
Maguy Marin’s landmark work, celebrating 30 feted years of continuous performance, begins with the sculptured forms of its ten dancers, posed in dusty alabaster-like desertion, being slowly brought to life by a solitary male voice in a quietly beautiful rendition of The Organ Grinder, from Schubert’s Winterreise cycle.
In the last lonely scene, when all but one has trudged and grunted, hissed and cackled, fought and struggled and spat their ways to journey’s end, another single male voice, in maddening repetition and far from lovely, accompanies the final fade.
Thirty years ago May B shocked with its new definition of what dance might be.
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Precise poetics, minute attention to detail
Review by Alys Longley 10th Mar 2011
In its sheer liveliness, momentum and physicality, May B testifies to the process of translation as one that is hugely inventive, generating new forms of culture in the movement of ideas between the specificity of creative disciplines.
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