MOIRAI
Choreography: Siân Hopkins in collaboration with Maggie BallDancer: Maggie BallMusic: I Reason, Earth Is Short by Emily Dickinson - read by Julie Harris
iTMOi (In the Mind of Igor): Sacrifice - Jocelyn Pook, Nitin Sawhney, Ben Frost
Introduction - Georges Brasens, La PalatineLighting: Mikkel Svak
Costume: Aylin Altinelli, Caroline Hagley Length: 8 minS
The Moirai were the three Greek goddesses of fate who personified the inescapable destiny of man. This piece explores the cycles we perpetuate in our search and questioning of purpose and meaning.
Maggie and I began our creative process by exploring meaning and intent together through improvisation. Challenging each other through our different perspectives and experiences of dancing and creating, we used improvisation, creative tasks and set material to find our shared musical interpretation and expression of the themes. This solo was crafted collaboratively with the aim of creating a challenging, expressive and satisfying performance solo for Maggie.
CHOREOGRAPHERSiân Hopkins, BA Dance Programme Leader at Middlesex University, is a performer, creator and teacher. She was principal artist and rehearsal director for Moving Visions Dance Theatre (2006-2018), and has danced with Inland Pacific Ballet in California, Peter McCoy Dance Company in Munich and various other projects and independent artists near and far. Siân has taught at dance institutions around the UK as well as in Japan, Singapore, Vietnam and Canada. Choreographic commissions include site-specific and cathedral-based projects, and Cantata Dramatica's choral dramatisations. Siân co-founded Kamavera Dance Theatre in 2019 with musician and composer Tom Kirkpatrick, creating collaborative screendance and theatre productions.
YEAR 3 performance