Safehold

Using exacting physicality and rigorous choreography, in SAFEHOLD, the dancers try to support, synchronise, and rely on each other, testing the limits of co-existence while maintaining impregnable and secure physical connections. As the pacing and rhythm intensifies across the hour-long event and the dancers move through a continuum of recursive and ever increasingly complex choreographic patterns, the work of maintaining the safety of the ‘hold’ is put to the test. The demands inflicted – to carry on, maintain equilibrium and cooperation, and sustain the performance – considers the scaffolding we rely on when seeking unity and the ‘common good’. SAFEHOLD examines our feeling and actual capacity for trust and reliance on the collective, evaluating what we deem to be safe for all on a human, bodily level.