3 June 2006
Fuerzabruta
Roundhouse
Some years ago I went to an awe-inspiring performance called De La Guarda - a mind-boggling display of physical theatre with people dancing in columns of rain, bounding across the theatre attached to bungy chord and running around the walls. The Roundhouse reopened with a production by the same company.
Lights in dry ice, like warm mist. Man walking, speeds up, sprinting, gets shot, stumbles dies. Gets up takes off bloody shirt, starts walking again, then running... He's on a street, all the other people are walking the other way, they keep bumping him, he's knocked from side to side, feel his irritation building up. He crashes through a wall and keeps running. Another wall comes fast towards him, crashes through, explosion of tickertape in a wind, then rain.
Above our heads a woman trapped in a waterbed, outside pressed against her is a man. Sort of sexual, sensual. She's wet and spinning, body pressing down, he's in a suit trying to catch her.
Several people smash up a room. Rythmically rioting.
Man walks along alone, a silvery wall is drawn around the wall. Two women chase each other tumbling, perpendicular to the audience.
Hurded into a smaller space a lid of clear plastic hangs over our heads, a woman spins around in some water, coloured light plays on the ripples, sometimes she's a silhouette, shadow, body print, wet clothes. Sliding, spinning and tabogoning. Four women, riples and splashing. The roof comes down closer and closer, the audience reach up and touch the dancers on the other side.
Amazing imagery, physical, loved it.
Whatsonstage
article about the Roundhouse by Steve Rose in Guardian
2:18 PM
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