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Broken Chords. - Tour.
Director - Charlotte Vincent.
Violin Sonatas - Heinrich von Biber.
Original score - John Avery.
Artistic Associate - TC Howard.
Lighting Design - James Harrison.
Costumes - Amanda Griffin.
Dancers - here .
Company – Vincent Dance Theatre – Company
Website.
Venues and Dates - Tour details.
Run Time - 1 Hour 35 Minutes.
Reviewer – Barbara Byran.
Provocative, emotional piece.
Broken Chords is a powerful piece of dance theatre. It revolves
around the turbulence created in a human soul profoundly affected by the
break-up of a relationship - "a future that never began". Like the variety
of notes in a musical chord Broken Chords deals with the variety
of emotions - physical and mental - that saturate the senses in the multi
faceted state caused by grief. Sadness, anger, manic humour, suicidal
tendencies, contemplation - all these emotions are revealed in the production.
At the beginning of the performance dozens of chairs are already arranged
in symmetrical rows. A violin and cello are the only props. A solitary
figure comes onto the stage and her emotional state is immediately discerned
when she clutches the back of a chair for support. Gingerly, as she proceeds
along the row in her state of grief, another figure emerges to tenderly
offer support and encourage her to pick up the violin. The haunting, piercing
lament mirrors her desolation.
Other figures come on stage, initially moving in isolation, immersed in
contemplation they occasionally gravitate towards an other before continuing
their solitary stance. But this sense of controlled order soon descends
into chaos as human emotions prevail.
Anger erupts. Chairs are hurled about indiscriminately. Couples start
to argue violently. A woman bursts onto the stage wielding a gun and starts
to terrorise the troupe into obedience but her dictatorial stance however
is gloriously transformed into great humour as she farcically orders them
around. Even the subject of suicide is dealt with humorously as the performer
Aurora Lubos reduces the audience to a fit of giggles in her failed
attempts to end her life.
But although there is much jesting in this production, we are nevertheless
taken on an emotional rollercoaster ride. And manic behaviour pervades
the performance. Even the musicians - Patrycja Kujawska on violin,
Alex Catona on cello - mirror emotional turmoil as their music
fluctuates from beautiful melodies to discordant screeching. With movement
and speech Broken Chords pertinently portrays the agonies of a
mind unhinged. A provocative piece, it begins and ends with a disconsolate
solitary figure, a poignant reminder that despite being supported by loving
friends during traumatic times we are, at the end of the day, left to
contemplate the pain of separation by ourselves.
©Barbara Bryan 12 November 2005 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
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Dancers -
Tour Details of Vincent Dance's production of Broken
Chords..
Tour begins
7 Oct at 8.00pm Kendal Brewery Arts Centre 01539 725133.
11 Oct at 7.30pm Portsmouth College 023 92 472700.
13 Oct at 7.45pm Frome Merlin Theatre 01373 465949.
14 Oct at 7.30pm Taunton Queen’s College, 01823 340829. Wednesday
19 Oct at 8.15pm Tonbridge EM Forster Theatre, 01732 361908.
27 Oct at 7.30pm Aberystwyth Arts Centre,Canolfan y Celfyddydau 01970
623232.
29 & 30 Oct at 8.00pm Lancaster Nuffield Theatre, 01524 594151.
4 Nov at 7.30pm St Austell Keay Theatre, 01726 226777.
7 – 9 Nov at 8.00pm Exeter Phoenix 01392 667080.
12 Nov at 7.30pm Edinburgh Traverse Theatre, 0131 228 1404.
16 Nov at 8.00pm Buxton Opera House 0845 1272190.
SPRING 2006 Please note that tickets for spring dates may not be yet on
sale.
8 Feb at Bedford Bowen West Theatre, 01234 219333.
14 & 15 Feb at Sheffield Lyceum Theatre, 0114 2496000.
17 Feb at Harrogate Theatre 01423 502116.
21 Feb at Oxford The Theatre at Headington, 01865 759138.
22 Feb at Cambridge The Junction, 01223 511511.
23 Feb at Newbury The Corn Exchange, 01635 522733.
28 Feb at Nottingham Playhouse 0115 9419419.
2 March at Taunton Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, 01823 414141.
7 – 11 March London The Place: Robin Howard Dance Theatre, 0207 3870031.
14 March at Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre, 08700 40 2000.
21 March Colchester
Mercury Theatre, 01206 573948.
Tour ends.
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