“ON WEIGHT” is a piece inspired by fragments from Jeanette Winterson’s book “ Weight”
Premiere: Sunday 11th of March 2007 at 20.30 hrs
RIALTO THEATRE, Limassol
As part of the Cyprus Dance Platform 9-11th of March 2007, organized by the Cyprus Ministry of Culture
‘On Weight’ is an interdisciplinary piece combining Jeanette Winterson’s language with choreography and juxtaposing it, also, with video imagery, installation and sound.
Based on fragments of Winterson’s novel ‘Weight’, the piece, like the book, intertwines autobiographical narrative with a retelling of the myth of Atlas. It is an exploration of loneliness and the longing for freedom, being trapped within the gravitational pull of past and future, and the capacity, finally, to break free of that gravitational pull, to crawl out from under the weight that we burden ourselves with, and to say, in the end, with Winterson ‘I don’t need the weight. Let it go. There are reservations and regrets, but let it go’.
Credits:
Choreography/ Direction/ Performance: Arianna Economou
Dramaturgy/ Co direction: Dorinda Hulton
Video artist: Peter Hulton
Video Technical Assistance: Yiangos Hadjiyiannis
Installation: Horst Weierstall
Sound design: Larkos Larkou
Music: Patrick Hawes (“Quantaqualia” and “Stargazer” )
Costume and styling: Anita Michaelidis
Lighting: Panayiotis Manousis
On Weight in Slovenia:
