Dador

Dador is a duet created in collaboration with performing artist Oliver Wagstaff. Born with the initiative to explore and find synchronicity in the symbiosis of two bodies, it fuses Rodriguez's quirky crawling language into seemingly effortless manipulations driven by the relationships between beginning, ending, permanence and change. In the first part, the dancers intertwine their bodies as an exploration of their own physical possibilities and limitations. The work develops based on knots-partnering, which evolves deepening states of alertness and sensitivity while dealing with physical risks. Being able to move in unison still when there is clearly a giver and a receiver becomes in fact a hard task. Often, as oriented givers, we tend to become non-conscious listeners, bringing communication and physicality to a point where both bodies and energies overlap and fluidity disappears. In this new work, the dancers deal and interact with their impulses, the urge to support each other and give themselves the energy and inputs to interconnect movements while facing the constant challenge of weight alterations. Within this exploration, they were simply open for what both energies had to offer, trusting their sensitivity and intuition. This work has been premiered in 2021 at Florence Dance Festival, Italy.

CREDITS

Choreography: Henry Rodríguez in collaboration with Oliver Wagstaff

Performance:  Oliver Wagstaff and Henry Rodriguez

Videography / Photography:  Adnan Jerbi

Music:  Kangding Ray, TATOS' (L’DELTA) 

Teaser: Henry Rodriguez

Duration: 13 minutes 37

Premiere: Florence Dance Festival, 2021