Ottawa Fringe 2014. Iredea Techno dance/theatre!!! See this

Photo thanks to Woo Me Myth.

Iredea Techno-dance/theatre performance.

First of all one can see this as one wants but to my mind this is not a Rock Opera or anything of the sort!!! The trouble is that we don’t have vocabulary to define this it is so far out. One could speak of techno-dance/theatre but whatever you think it might be, the performers are mainly dancers with theatre experience, and a musician. No matter, because whatever name one uses to describe this show be prepared for a fascinating experience that brought together contemporary technology fused with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s world of dance and Marie Chouinard’s earlier anthropological vision of dance, whose characters are at times, creatures crawling out of the Uhrschleim of a new world . Iredea recreates the Apocalypse with images projected on a screen, powerful lighting effects, sound effects that are bits of electronically generated vibrating rhythm, guitar music, a human voice that growls and pants and makes unidentifiable sounds for which we don’t yet have the words in our language to describe.

Also it is accompanied by a literary voice-off text that actually describes the end of the world and the fate of the human race as we see it all happening on stage! New species emerge from the dust of destruction and these creatures confront each other in their need to define a new culture and the founding image/text of that new culture, explained in the performance, will be uncovered in the future. It’s a bit of cultural anthropology that comes to life in this space and it produces a highly original and very exciting performance. Only y the appearance of the bone wielding cave-man near the end that brought us back to Kubrick’s 2001, A Space Odyssey, seemed out of place. The play looks towards the future but that image drags us back to the past. Something to rethink. IN spite of that, this is a performance of a quality that could definitely be programmed in the NAC dance series…..

Plays at Academic Hall

Plays at Academic Hall

Iredea

A Production Woo Me Myth

Creators | Performers | Collaborators:
Ted Strauss
Jenn Doan
Melina Stinson
Mark Sawh Medrano
Maria Paula
Sandra Chirico
Clement Yeh
Tristan A. Brand
Kaie Kellough
Marigold Santos
Corinne Crane