Their daring grapples and jigsaw partnering shapes are gripping
Ticklish
Premiere 2001
Ticklish
Premiere 2001
‘Their daring grapples and jigsaw partnering shapes are gripping’
THE INDEPENDENT
Your body is in unstable equilibrium, you feel insecure, like you are tottering, like you are being seduced by physical amusement yet simultaneously repelled; you are at that blurred point, you are ticklish.
The piece concentrates on this ‘ticklish’ state through relationships. Where friendly competition and playfulness can become aggressive to the point of conflict and fight. The light energy of elusiveness, the teasing and slaps of affection become their own extremes, the alert, quick energy of violence – a caress that becomes a slap.
‘Clever and cruel’
TIME OUT
‘Vardimon is one of those dancers you can’t take your eyes off. Like an inquisitive cat, she bends and stretches, climbs and crawls, contorting her incredible body into ever more complex positions. She does the same with her choreography.’
THE SCOTSMAN
CREDITS
CONCEPT, DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Jasmin Vardimon MBE
CREATED WITH & PERFORMED BY
Luke Burrough, Catherine Gardner, Barney Dillon, Jasmin Vardimon MBE
ALSO PERFORMED BY
Hofesh Shechter, Phil Hayes
ARTISTIC ADVISOR & VIDEO ARTWORK
Guy Bar-Amotz
LIGHTING DESIGN
Chahine Yavroyan
COSTUME DESIGN
Mair Joint
SET DESIGN
Bob Bailey, Mark Hosking
ORIGINAL SCORE
Jules Maxwell
SOUND EDITING
Ohad Fishof
PREMIERE
2001
SUPPORTED BY
The Jerwood Award, ACE National Touring programme, DanceXchange, The Oval House, Yorkshire Arts and Yorkshire Dance
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
Clever and cruel
Vardimon is one of those dancers you can’t take your eyes off. Like an inquisitive cat, she bends and stretches, climbs and crawls, contorting her incredible body into ever more complex positions. She does the same with her choreography.