The jazz drummer Conor Guilfoyle’s jittery beats set the dancer Alex O’Neill convulsing around the dance floor
“What is the difference between a big pizza and a drummer? A big pizza can feed a family of four.” When the dancer Alex O’Neill begins a stand-up routine of drummer jokes in the middle of’s latest production, the jazz drummer Conor Guilfoyle is the obvious fall guy. He sits silently and takes the jokes on the chin, but as soon as he begins playing, his jittery beats set O’Neill twitching and eventually convulsing around the dance floor, the infectious rhythms impossible to resist.
Whatever about being the butt of jokes to musicians, among dancers Guilfoyle is dominant. Both playful and earnest, he instigates the energy and action onstage. Together with David Bolger, this work’s director and choreographer, Guilfoyle has avoided the more obvious correspondences between drums and dance, instead creating a rich and constantly morphing interaction between movement and sound. At times dancers and musicians are communicating at a quieter vibrational level rather than matching thuds with stomps.
Choreography ranges between the tiniest nuanced movement to energetic lopping, as Guilfoyle constantly seeks new sonorities on the drums, sometimes sounding out a soft melody or simple swishes of cymbals.
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