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Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus

Oona Doherty (UK-NIR)

July 6 | 8.15 p.m.
Teatro India Area Bar-Sala A

Con il patrocinio del Municipio XI di Roma Capitale

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Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus lies between the lines of physical theatre, social proclamation and dance. At humping black golf head lights on sits in waiting, Music thumping from its metal shield. A man who is many men leaks in out of the metal beat, his story, A hunt for hope.
Hope Hunt focuses on energy and emotions of a population that Oona Doherty encountered on the streets of Belfast's poorest neighborhoods, far from the luxury of residential areas. The performance reveals all the humanity behind the verbal and gestural violence, thrown on the sidewalk as the artist throws her body onstage in a dance that embodies all the narrative, dramaturgy and metamorphosis of many Irish women's stories.

Credits

Choreography: Oona Doherty
Performer: Sati Veyrunes
DJ and Car Driver: Maxime Jerry Fraisse
Original Music: Maxime Jerry Fraisse
Technical manager: Anat Bosak Production:
Oona Doherty / OD Works
Original creation 2016: Dance Resource Base, Art Council of Northern Ireland, The MAC Theatre – Belfast


Duration: 40 minutes

Oona Doherty

is a Northern Irish dancer and choreographer, awarded the Silver Lion at the 2021 Venice Biennale. She studied at St Louise’s comprehensive college Belfast, the London School of Contemporary Dance, the University of Ulster and LABAN London. Doherty’s distinctive and visceral choreography has attracted international attention, earning her numerous awards, rave reviews and prestigious artistic opportunities in Europe and internationally. Her choreographic work includes: Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus, 2016: Hard to be Soft – A Belfast Prayer, 2017; Lady Magma: The Birth of a Cult, 2019; Lazarus multiverse, 2020 for (La) Horde, Ballet National de Marseille (FR); Navy Blue, 2022; Specky Clark, 2024.

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