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 11 dancers performing jagged, even broken movements. To the sound of Rachmaninoff’s...

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Babs Asper Theatre,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
May 23 - 24, 2024
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Oona Doherty Navy Blue © Sinje Hasheider
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Oona Doherty Navy Blue © Sinje Hasheider
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Oona Doherty Navy Blue © Dajana Lothert
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Oona Doherty Navy Blue © Sinje Hasheider
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Oona Doherty Navy Blue © Dajana Lothert
Dance Contemporary
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Oona Doherty Navy Blue © Sinje Hasheider
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Oona Doherty Navy Blue © Dajana Lothert
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Oona Doherty Navy Blue © Sinje Hasheider
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Oona Doherty Navy Blue © Dajana Lothert
  • In-person event
  • ≈ 50 minutes · No intermission
  • Partial nudity
  • 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 11 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.  

A proem written by Oona Doherty & Bush Moukarzel will be heard during the performance. Read it in the program notes.  

Content Warning: This show contains a gun shot sound effect, brief nudity, strong language, and intermittent loud music.

Post-show chat

Following the presentation of Navy Blue on Thursday, May 23, we invite the audience to stay in the Theatre for a post-show chat with Oona. The discussion will be led by Caroline Ohrt, Executive Producer of NAC Dance.

Artists

  • Oona Doherty
    Featuring Oona Doherty
  • Choreography Oona Doherty in collaboration with the dancers 
  • Performers Arno Brys, Kevin Coquelard, Thibaut Eiferman, Zoé Lecorgne, Mohamed Makhlouf, Andréa Moufounda, Magdalena Öttl, Mathilde Roussin, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold, Joseph Simon, Sati 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 
  • Stage Manager Lisa Marie Barry 
  • Costume Construction Oona Doherty and Lisa Marie Barry 
  • Management and Production Gabrielle Veyssiere 
  • Production and Administration Christine Maupetit
  • Co-production Kampnagel International Summer Festival (DE), Sadler’s Wells (UK), Théâtre National de Chaillot (FR), La Biennale di Venezia (IT), Maison de la Danse (FR), The Shed (USA), Belfast International Arts Festival (UK) and Big Pulse Dance Alliance (coproduced by Dance Umbrella (UK), Dublin Dance Festival (IR), Torinodanza Festival (IT), Julidans (NL)) + MC2: Grenoble (FR).
  • With the support of German Federal Cultural Foundation, Creative Europe program of the European Union, Kulturstiftug des Bundes, and Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Ile-de-France – Ministère de la culture