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the cast on tour 2009
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Animal Park
By: Tim Rushton
With: Dansk Danseteaters dansere
Costume design: Charlotte Østergaard
Light design: Mikael Sylvest
Music: Biosphere og Craig Amstrong
Duration: ca. 1 time
Premiered: 30. November 2006
They come out of the dark – one by one… as inadvertent passers-by in a deserted, night-dark side street - they are revealed, as in the cone of light from a search helicopter, as latent criminals…
In ‘Animal Park’ Tim Rushton and Dansk Danseteater’s fabulous dancers mirror the people of everyday life, when they are most vulnerable, when the masks have fallen. Under cover of darkness - when they believe themselves unseen - they can live out their narcissistic self-centredness, undisturbed. It must, necessarily create infighting - and touch off wordless dramas among them.
Each dancer lives out, for better or worse, a character they themselves helped create; here is the girl who thinks everybody else are idiots - the attention seeking man, who only ’exists’ in front of an audience – a woman with a project which demands all her concentration, which leaves room for no one else - self-centred men obsessed with sex - and many more… All these people contain aspects we recognise in ourselves - or recognise in others.
“Animal Park” speaks in simple images and directly to the senses and feelings of the members of the audience. By watching what goes on between each individual dancer on the stage, the audience experiences situations, which are recognisable for everybody. Human relations, which are a general theme in Tim Rushton’s choreographic work, are taken up in a new, tough form - this time both humorous and deeply moving.
“Animal Park” was nominated by the Danish Reumert Award for best dance performance in 2007.
The critics wrote at the premiere in the programme named Confessions November 2006 at Kaelidoskop K2:
In “Animal Park” Tim Rushton clamp us tight in twisted and forbidden voyeuristic fascination. The inner animal of human beings in all its self-centredness, lust, controlled and ritualistic survival instinct, are set free on Rushton’s stage…But what seduces, is, not only the chance to peep into the characters more or less perverted shadow sides, it is also the choreographic invention and variation, which Rushton yet again displays.
Aline Storm, Børsen ****
In Rushton’s new piece, Animal Park, the anger suddenly rushes through the dance: The rage, the aggression, the meanness, the scorn, the revenge…. And then it is suddenly very violent to be a member of the audience. And very wonderful.
Anne Middelboe Christensen, Information
It is new to see the creative leader of Dansk Danseteater set foot on new territory and set out on an exploration into a psychological field study, where the night animals of the big city loom out from the fog, in poisonous green lighting, and step into character as love hungry individuals, caught in midstream or while hunting…There are all predators, instincts and apathy imprisoned behind bars in Rushton’s night zoo.
Majbrit Hjelmsbo, Weekend Avisen
An intense evening about longing and lust, aggression and tenderness, without words, but with bodies, which speak the simple and strong language of love.
Henrik Lyding, Jyllands-Posten *****
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