HOPE:
Chiron in Aries, Recital #2

Second opus opus of Chiron in Aries, Hope is conceived as a ritual that explores queer kinship and the place of folk dances in our imaginary and popular representations.

Hope is the second piece of the Chiron in Aries cycle of pieces. After the sacrificial and wounded dances of struggle and resistance and the dystopian world suggested in Warriors, Hope is an attempt to conjure up a new world from the ashes of a past one. Revolving around the theme of queer kinship, the piece is conceived as a ritual, a gathering of queer witches. The dances evoke ritualistic folk dances, not existing ones but phantasmic ones. Although these dances are reminiscent of classic representations of such dances in archeological artifacts and in popular representations, they are imaginary.

Creation: 2021
Premiere: Sept. 24, 2021 * Malmö, SE
Duration: 60 min.

Choreography: Frédéric Gies
Dance: Samuel Draper, Andreas Haglund, Elizabeth Ward, Declan Whitaker
Music: Fiedel
Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

Co-produced by Inkonst and Weld
Residence support by MARC

With the support of Kulturrådet and Malmö stad