7 pm
On / Off is a choreographic work for teenagers and adults. It features a quartet of dancers in action on a surprising device – a treadmill.
On this unusual, confined space, movement is as constrained as it is exhilarating, fiery and acrobatic. In turn, or as a group, the quartet tackles themes such as surpassing oneself, identity, living together, freedom, breathlessness and the multitude of feelings and sensations that make existence complex. This environment is a meeting place for characters seeking to understand their place in the world. They play with time, suspending action in space to explore the details of a gesture or a question. The dancers are sometimes at the mercy, sometimes in control of this intriguing, unpredictable, mobilizing machine. The mercilessly rushing belt becomes a metaphor for the passage from childhood to adulthood, for the path we travel and, more broadly, for the life we must learn to tame.
