A rolling hitch

Elizabeth Ward / PARASOL: A rolling hitch

Fri 13. & Sat 14.12., 19.30h, Premiere, Dance

"A rolling hitch" is a knot, an attachment. Stable in some directions and easily undone in others. But a hitch is also a hiccup or a kick – a step, as in the case of Elizabeth Ward one across dance history. In her piece for the TQW dance group PARASOL, consisting of Helena Araújo, Elda Gallo, Yoh Morishita, Jennie-love Navoret and Viltė Švarplytė, Ward searches for the dances running like threads through their individual pasts. Like the proto-queer "Les Biches" and "Les Noces", a constructivist ballet with feminist undertones, both created by Bronislava Nijinska in 1924 for the Ballets Russes: one of Ward’s first teachers in Atlanta in the 1980s was in turn taught by Nijinska herself in her dance studio in Hollywood in the 1940s. "A rolling hitch" will draw and tug on lines like these, examine their attachment, and let go to pull the strings in a new choreography.