Lightning Dance
| Actor | Cecilia Bengolea |
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The artist, choreographer and dancer Cecilia Bengolea films a strange flow between the sky and dance, between the weather and the bodies. The storm is by turn threatening and complicit as the dancers perform, the speed of their movements teaming up with the electricity in the air. The bodies defy the storm, exercising their virtuosity, soaked by the rain, encouraged by the rain. Behind them are the blinding headlights of cars that mark out the stage, and lightning illuminates and reveals the backdrop. “Lightning Dance” offers an account of the effects of hurricanes in Jamaica and, in this great entanglement of energies, movements and shapes, has also chosen to retain the dancers’ expressions, their smiles and their collusion as they perform together.
Éva Tourrent
Tënk artistic director
The artist, choreographer and dancer Cecilia Bengolea films a strange flow between the sky and dance, between the weather and the bodies. The storm is by turn threatening and complicit as the dancers perform, the speed of their movements teaming up with the electricity in the air. The bodies defy the storm, exercising their virtuosity, soaked by the rain, encouraged by the rain. Behind them are the blinding headlights of cars that mark out the stage, and lightning illuminates and reveals the backdrop. “Lightning Dance” offers an account of the effects of hurricanes in Jamaica and, in this great entanglement of energies, movements and shapes, has also chosen to retain the dancers’ expressions, their smiles and their collusion as they perform together.
Éva Tourrent
Tënk artistic director
