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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

Hairy

Lithuanian Dance Information Center, Le Ballet National de Marseille – direction (LA)HORDE, Théâtre de Vanves – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national « Art et création ».


Hairy 2.0

Conny Janssen Danst, Dansateliers (co-producers)


Hairy 3.0

New Baltic Dance, Festival DANCE Munich (co-producers)

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