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| 14.10. 2017 / 19:30 |
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Interview is the latest solo from Julyen Hamilton who has been making solo pieces constantly over the past 35 years. The piece presents both the interviewer and the interviewed.
Intimacy exposed.
Intimacy restored.
It is the look of our times and a look at our times through the individual creator
being interviewed and creating.
Technology
brief like your heart
in photographs
captured and evaporated;
a small world
a million small worlds,
west, sharp, sleep, wake;
your brief moment, pulsating.
Interview was premiered in Brussels in November 2016. Julyen Hamilton’s last solo ‘PLAY’ was shown in Studio ALTA also in 2015 and he performed in last year’s music festival ‘VS Interpretation’ 2016.
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JULYEN HAMILTON is a dancer, choreographer, poet, teacher and a musician. He has been making and performing dances for 40 years throughout the world. Born and brought up in England he trained in London in the 1970’s, a time of radical experimentation, he has been an exponent of innovative performance since that time. His work is mostly improvised: he composes dance works instantly as well as the texts which often accompany them. His work with text is unique. It fuses naturally his long-term writing practice with his refined skills in dancing. When working with his company Allen’s Line he directs dancers and lighting designers to make and perform work through this same immediacy.
Since the 80’s he has performed constantly in close collaboration with many of the highest quality musicians from all over Europe. It is with some of these musicians that he gives readings of his poetry. He is well respected for his teaching which reflects his research and development into efficient ways in which technique can evolve and improvisational creativity might be imparted.
He is regularly invited to teach in major training centres throughout the world, his pedagogy centring on the elements of space, time, voice and dramaturgy.
www.julyenhamilton.com
www.allensline.com
REVIEWS
“JULYEN HAMILTON ‘s movement is as soft and easy as silk lying on your skin… Yet his turns of speed can leave you gasping, wondering what you missed while you blinked. Suddenly a foot hooks behind a knee and he is on the floor. In another context it would be considered a partial fall, but the elegance with which it occurs takes us by surprise and forestalls the traditional guffaw in response.
The gestures, words and chants that seem somehow familiar yet also so strange were a feature of the evening, often subverting any interpretation we might impose upon his actions.
Hamilton’s work reflects the rejection of theatricality, overt expressionism, and explicit meaning adopted by choreographers from both sides of the Atlantic in the ‘70s. Hamilton’s movement articulation seemed to eminate from the very centre of his body and traverse pathways out through the limbs with such a clarity we could sense them.
As I got up to leave I was extremely conscious of my own movement and remembered the privilege of dancing.’
Hilary Crampton, Herald sun
“…his intelligence roves so freely that he can conjure movements way outside the normal stock of dance vocabularies….”
Judith Mackrell / Independent
“Hamilton knows how to communicate with his audience… with exquisite humour and never-ending surprises…”
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