The Aching (2023)
Photo - Sam Coudrais
The Aching is a song cycle.
The Aching is a gestural experiment.
Death as an archetypal study.
Grief as a melody.
Misery as a choreographic object.
The Aching explores the temporality of grief, the temporality of my grief.
Using folk songs from Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States, it gently lulls us into a fever dream that is at once gentle yet brutal, speaking to the seemingly eternal nature of the human capacity to experience suffering while simultaneously transforming this suffering into creative expressions that transcend, complexify, and, in turn, cancel out certain sufferings.
Creation and performance - Samir Kennedy
Sound - Samir Kennedy
Outside Eye - Simon Vincenzi, Sara Manente, Ghyslaine Gau
Acknowledgments - Simon Vincenzi, Katerina Andreou, Myrto Katsiki, Anne Kezerho, Jean-Daniel Broussé, Ghyslaine Gau, Sara Manente
Creation supported by - ICI-CCN Centre Chorégraphique de Montpellier Occitanie, Tanzhaus Zürich, Battersea Art’s Centre, The Old Diorama, Arts Council England