HAIRY
2022/2023
Hair is one of the few parts of the human body that one cannot move voluntarily and directly. For the most of dance history this has been a nuisance for choreographers, as control of one’s movements is primordial in dance training. To venture into creating a choreography for hair, is to venture into a battle between chaos and order. Loose hair has been a symbol of freedom, liberation and carelessness. These values and aesthetics of released hair have accompanied both revolutionary choreographers, such as Isadora Duncan or Pina Bausch, and various subcultures, such as head banging in metal scene or hair-whipping in ballroom scene. In Hairy, rich historical and social background that hair movement carries within itself is combined with the tensions of choreographing involuntary movement, controlling the uncontrollable. This, together with Strimaitis’ devotion to minimalism and formalism, bears a multilayered choreographic and visual experience marked with counterpoints not only in timing and space, but also in conceptual and historical narratives.
The piece exists in three versions: a 10-minute trio called Hairy, a 20-minute solo called Hairy 2.0, and a 25-minute trio called Hairy 3.0.
choreographer and author
Dovydas Strimaitis
dancers
Hairy
Benoît Couchot/Lucrezia Nardone, Hanna-May Porlon, Dovydas Strimaitis
Hairy 2.0
Liza Wallerbosch/Dovydas Strimaitis
Hairy 3.0
Lucrezia Nardone, Hanna-May Porlon, Dovydas Strimaitis
soundtrack by
Julijona Biveinytė;
The Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 4 played by Yo-Yo Ma is used in the piece
lighting designer
Hairy
Lisa M. Barry
Hairy 2.0
Remko van Wely/Lisa M. Barry
Hairy 3.0
Lisa M. Barry
costume advice
Salomé Poloudenny
duration
Hairy
10'
Hairy 2.0
20'
Hairy 3.0
25'
premiere
Hairy
25 06 2022 at Danse élargie, Espace Cardin, Paris (FR)
Hairy 2.0
01 10 2022 at Nederlandse Dansdagen, Kumulus, Maastricht (NL)
Hairy 3.0
14 05 2023 at Festival DANCE, HochX, Munich (DE)
supported by