Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The acclaimed choreographer has teamed up with the musican Sam Amidon to create the festival’s opening show
’s latest production, as do elation and collapse, some well-orchestrated chaos and formal moments of great beauty, peppered with redemption and care. It is a remarkable ride.
Somehow we decided classical music was more important than folk music. But I can tell you pop music has changed more people’s livesHe moves with the dancers, every gesture replicated through his own body.
Where does Amidon sit on that spectrum? “I would have to say the same,” he says. “That’s the nature of these folk songs. There’s so much darkness in them, and yet so much beauty in them. And that’s true of everything we’re up to here as well.” “It is easy to say something like: life is short, enjoy it as we’re all going to die,” says Amidon. “But how do you actually shake people up so that they feel that in that moment? The initial process is heavily improvisatory, and it’s like looking for these disjuncted points, where it’s, like, ‘Wait, what was that?’ That’s when you open up into these deep truths.” In today’s fractured world of increasingly jingoistic faux simplicities, this feels more important than ever.
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