BARRICADES & LEGACIES:
Chiron in Aries, Recital #3

Barricades and Legacies is a muthological epic with 7 rebellious dancers. The piece explores the expression of one's identity and the preservation of the individual's spirit inside a group as we progressively witness a collective emerge, with queer kinship as a foundation.

Barricades and Legacies: Chiron in Aries, Recital #3, a piece of 7 dancers, brings to the forefront an unbridled, virtuosic and meticulously detailed dance. It is conceived as an epic, a long poem depicting a mythological world. Expressing turmoil and urgency, each dancer engages in bold, rebellious dances, in solos and duos. Progressively a collective emerges, with queer kinship as a foundation.

The piece is the third chapter of the Chiron in Aries cycle of pieces, which references Greek mythology and its absorption by astrology. Following Warriors: Chiron in Aries, Recital #1 (2020) and Hope: Chiron in Aries, Recital #2 (2021).

Creation: 2022
Premiere: Sept. 30, 2022 * Malmö, SE
Duration: Part 1 - 85 min. + Intermission - 15 min. + Part 2 - 40 min.

Choreography: Frédéric Gies
Dance: Brittanie Brown, Frédéric Gies, Andreas Haglund, Disa Krosness, Julia Plawgo, Elizabeth Ward, Declan Whitaker
Music: Fiedel
Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

Co-produced by Inkonst, Skogen and Weld
Residence support by MARC

With the support of Kulturrådet, Malmö stad and Region Skåne