Thierry Smits' new creation will deal with liberation, insubordination and the necessity of revolt.
While we were used in Smits' latest creations to large scale productions with numerous male performers, the choreographer this time chose to make a solo performance for a young woman: Australian dancer Nicola Leahey, who showed great technical virtuosity in Clear Tears / Troubled Waters and explosive theatricality in the recent Cocktails.
Through her body and movements, Smits intends to deliver a choreographic metaphor for the oppression of the female body, for the constraints women are subject to even today, in our "progressive" society as well. But he also makes allusion, on a more universal level, to the yoke of conventions, the power relations which any individual – man or woman – can experience... and subsequently refers to the necessity of revolt to break free, to the breach which can be found and to the freedom which has to be won.
Premiere: April 2015