Oona Doherty Navy Blue © Sinje Hasheider
Oona Doherty | OD Works
Navy Blue
2024-05-23 19:30
2024-05-24 20:30
60
Canada/Eastern
🎟 NAC: Oona Doherty | OD Works
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/33705
In-person event
A stunning performance infused with pain, rebellion and hope. Belfast-based choreographer Oona Doherty is shaking up the world of contemporary dance with her visceral honesty and her works haunted by Northern Ireland’s past—a legacy of violence, patriarchy and religious conflict. Navy Blue, her most ambitious piece to date, brings together a group of 12 dancers performing jagged, even broken movements. To the sound of Rachmaninoff’s...
Babs Asper Theatre,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
May 23
- 24, 2024
7:30 pm EDT
Dance
Contemporary
- In-person event
- ≈ 1 hour · No intermission
- Gunshots
A stunning performance infused with pain, rebellion and hope.
Belfast-based choreographer Oona Doherty is shaking up the world of contemporary dance with her visceral honesty and her works haunted by Northern Ireland’s past—a legacy of violence, patriarchy and religious conflict. Navy Blue, her most ambitious piece to date, brings together a group of 12 dancers performing jagged, even broken movements. To the sound of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, we follow this corps de ballet on stage until shots are fired. And then tragedy strikes. A blue tide of loneliness floods the space. But all is not lost. Heavy, free-form music by DJ Jamie xx propels the dancers to get up and make way for more liberated bodies, sharp gestures crackling with energy. A powerful show that highlights the talent of this young choreographer and her dancers, who abandon themselves to the game of harsh reality.
- Choreography Oona Doherty in collaboration with the dancers
- Performers Amancio Gonzalez Miñon, Andréa Moufounda, Arno Brys, Kinda Gozo, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold, Joseph Simon, Mathilde Roussin, Ryan O’Neill, Sati Veyrunes, Thibaut Eiferman, Tomer Pistiner, Zoé Lecorgne and Magdalena Öttl.Veyrunes
- Original Score Jamie xx, © Universal Music Publishing Ltd.
- Music production William Smith
- Additional music Sergei Rachmaninov
- Writer collaborator Bush Moukarzel
- Video and stage design Nadir Bouassria
- Lighting Design and Technical Direction John Gunning
- Costume Design Oona Doherty and Lisa Marie Barry
- Management and Production Gabrielle Veyssiere
- Production and Administration Jenny Suarez and Virginie Reymond
Articles & reviews
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Oona Doherty’s Squid Game Swan Lake
A rising star of the European contemporary dance scene, Doherty won the Silver Lion at the Venice Dance Biennale in 2021. Now, she is...
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(French) Avec “Navy Blue”, Oona Doherty livre un spectacle insubmersible
La chorégraphe irlandaise imagine une humanité dansante par temps troublés. Secouant.
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Navy Blue review – Oona Doherty’s dark night of the soul
Imbuing the balletic grace of her dancer’s movements with tension and anxiety, Doherty asks a refreshing yet unsettling question: what’s the...
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