Incarnate

Duet 45 mins.

Original Concept and Artistic Direction: Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
Choreography: Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
Assistant Direction: Nick Parkin
Original Sound: Nick Parkin
Lighting: Karen Norris
Costume: ?

Laban Thursday 17th March 2005
Nuffield Theatre in LancasterMay 24th 2006

Incarnate was commissioned and funded by Trinity Laban in London and Nuffield Theatre in Lancaster and Arts Council of England.

Incarnate draws upon Rotie's intensive research into Samuel Beckett's short stories. Incarnate brings visions of Butoh from Asian and European perspectives into one world, fusing the distilled poetics of Marie-Gabrielle’s choreographic work with a surreal style.

From the opening vision of two bodies molded into one egg-like form, to the closing impact of two bodies becoming old, Incarnate touches the audience on a very mythic, poetic and emotive level. The performers surrender their bodies to the process of transformation – they convincingly change form to become other worldly creatures and, despite their semi-nakedness, they cease to be just male or female.

The two performers dance the space between inhale and exhale, birth and death, their bodies inhabited by impulses, spirits and dreams.