Up close and personal, TotheBone reveals struggles and rituals of a couple in what it looks like a domestic environment.
Commissioned by and toured as part of Bare Bones 3, DanceXchange’s in the round performance company, TotheBone was originally created with and for company’s members Vicky Manderson and Jacob Dorff-Petersen.
Through the sound track, we hear their real feelings and desires, and we get to understand what they real really think of each other. Only with underwear on, and carried in and out of the performance space as mannequins, the performers seem to invite you in totheir bedroom and put their uncertainties and intimate battles on display.
Running time: 20 minutes
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Reviews
“In Luca Silvestrini’s To the Bone, River Carmalt and Vicky Manderson squabble through a relationship. The soundtrack mixes songs and their voices, while the dancers grapple, shove and climb into each other’s knickers.” The Independent
“The two dancers are carried on like dummies. Thereafter they are anything but puppet-like and act out their relationship to a recording of their thoughts, curious, loving, sexy, aggressive, with much power-play.” Ballet.Co
Production Credits
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Tour History
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
October 2011 part of Bare Bones, The Decade
The Linbury, Royal Opera House, London
October 2011 part of Bare Bones, The Decade
The Patrick Centre, DanceXchange, Birmingham
October 2011 part of Bare Bones, The Decade
Boiler House, The Wapping Project, London
13-31 January 2011 part of Dancing the Decade in Performance – Frontiers and Fragments
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