7 to 10 Passages
From the programme for The Forsythe Company's recent performance in Ottawa:The work '7 to 10 Passages' represents one of the final stages of the 20-year project, 'The Questioning of Robert Scott', which resulted in 7 radically different productions. Focused on the fallibility of perception and memory, each successive production relied on the fact that dance does not product an adjacent literature that defines and represents its position in the historical landscape of culture; scores, if you will, that are universally recognized and secure the authentic reproduction of works. The work adopts the view that the failure of a dance to become historically substantive might finally be an incumbent form of its successful functioning. '7 to 10 Passages' offers a slow, hallucinatory archaeology of the 20 years process of the works disappearance.
Or, in a more accurate description, they might have written, "After the auditorium has been blasted with screeching, repetitive, post-industrial, nightmare-inducing "music", 6 dancers will walk like paraplegics at an infinitesimally slow speed from the back of the stage to the front. While this is taking place, the audience will be treated to a completely nonsensical argument taking place between 2 sets of dancers seated at stage left and stage right, which crescendos into an anxiety-ridden screaming of 'SAID THE MONSTER! AND THEN THE MONSTER SAID! SAID THE MONSTER'".
Futuristic, fantastic post-schmegmaticism at its very, very best. Book the Forsythe Company at your local theatre today!
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