When the bonds that hold the world together are broken, the best I can do is dance. Dancing with others. The show “That’s all we can do” features four dancers who implement the director Andrej Yarovoj’s idea – to show dancing as a form of communication and, in a sense, as a weapon.
“There was news that four or five girls were arrested in Iran for dancing in the courtyard. Thinking about what’s happening in the world today and this event, the idea came to make a show about thank God we can still dance, that often there may be a situation: if I can’t do anything else, then I can still dance,” said the director.
“And the other aspect – being in a club and dancing, there is such a funny feeling that I am dancing alone with myself and at the same time I am dancing with the others, and we are creating a group, a society, a space, where before we have not discussed what rules , according to the rules, we do it,” says Jarovoj.
While working on the performance, the dancers “packaged” the director’s idea into choreographies and only then the music was created. Similar to how film music often has to be created when the film is already assembled.
The author of the music, Toms Auniņš, says: “They had even rehearsed the movements in a specific bpm – beats per minute -, this is the tempo from which the genre in dance music also derives. Consequently, I had to adapt to those movements, I sat and tried to understand from the outside, what it is, and then you have to adapt to that pace.”
The performance “That’s all we can do” also tells about its participants, for whom the language of dance is often the easiest form of communication.
Dancer Emily Berg notes, “Over time I’ve had the feeling that, at least at this point in my life, this is a language I feel good in.”
“What I really like is that we are not afraid of gestures, we are not afraid of what position our body is in. It makes us so… brave. Our communication is much more open from that,” says dancer Vladimir Gorshantov.
Auniņš also adds: “The paradox is that people gather in a group to celebrate their individuality. This is the beautiful phenomenon for club culture and dance music as such.”
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2023-11-30 17:45:52
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