Disclosure: Dance Dispatches acquired complimentary digital admission to put in writing an open and sincere evaluation of Welcome to Campfire’s The Pigeon & The Mouse: The Movie.
“Pricey Pigeon…”
The spoken phrase within the voice-over leads the motion of two our bodies rooting down on earth. That is an intimate dialogue between a pair, constructed up throughout easy transitions and rolls throughout the ground, with one easy premise: they’re by no means aside.
The sense of contact and fusion invitations us near the scene, however not fully part of it – as we watch the piece via a present window, gaining glimpses of individuals strolling on the road and site visitors lights sometimes leaping on set. Separate from the movement of the surface world, this dance duet claims an urgency to decelerate time and inform a narrative of affection, separation, human connection and its vulnerability.
“Actual, uncooked and susceptible, [The Pigeon & The Mouse film] is a twenty-minute summation of what it has felt wish to climate this pandemic, taking viewers via the swells of affection and hate, terror and tedium, intimacy and distance.”
– Welcome to Campfire
Welcome to Campfire
The Movie is the newest model of The Pigeon & The Mouse efficiency, created by the New-York primarily based platform Welcome to Campfire. The creative duo, Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn, met whereas performing Sleep No Extra NYC in 2013 and, since then, they’ve been choreographing, producing and performing authentic work that invitations audiences to rediscover the origins of storytelling. Combining dance and theatre, their productions deal with presenting dystopian futures and tales round human connection.
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The Pigeon & The Mouse: The Movie
After a sold-out premiere in January 2020, The Pigeon & The Mouse has been tailored for the display screen, as a artistic response from Bordonaro and Kapteyn to the Covid-19 lockdown limitations on dwell efficiency. Billed as “a love story about leaving house,” the movie crosses the disciplines of motion, spoken phrase and music. Made in collaboration with filmmaker Daniel Robinson, the piece options authentic work by visible artists Olya Dubatova and Levon Petrosyan, in addition to an authentic music by Daniel Henri Emond.
By embracing the probabilities of display screen dance, the motion efficiency will get reshaped. We see motions at various speeds reconstruct this love story about two folks pressured to go away house within the wake of a civil struggle. All through, the narrative oscillates between static, acrobatic positions and speedy strikes, which permits the duo to play across the idea of energy on each the female and male physique.
Nonetheless, we all the time return to a central query: does love stay in the course of the chaos?
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As Asaf Avidan’s ‘The Labyrinth Tune’ fades out within the background, the duo lays drained on the ground, face-to-face, making an attempt to succeed in one another’s fingers.
When nothing else stays – not even motion – a visceral power frequently emerges to carry love again.
Certainly, this efficiency lies on a duality between ends and restarts, whereas transitioning between blinks of desperation, euphoria, contemplation, life, dying and care. This intense, transferring duet culminates with an apocalyptical voice summing up this fable:
As soon as upon a time, a land creature and a sky creature who’re deeply in love be taught that the earth is falling out of the sky.
They react to this prophetic voice frenetically amplifying the ferocity of the scene. Dealing with the impossibility of preventing towards their future, they discover a method to get again collectively once more.
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The Pigeon & The Mouse highlights the ability of resilience over separation, and love towards destiny.
Watch Welcome to Campfire’s The Pigeon & The Mouse
The Pigeon & The Mouse movie was launched publicly on Could 4 and it’s out there to stream for a restricted time:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thepigeonthemousethefilm
It’s possible you’ll presently lease the movie for $15.99 USD, which will provide you with entry for twenty-four hours.
All data appropriate and up-to-date at time of publication.
Born in Portugal, Inês Carvalho moved to London for a Grasp’s in Arts Administration at Middlesex College. She has been taught modern dance at Metropolis Academy London and written items for Dance Artwork Journal. She has labored with American dance artist Bianca Paige Smith in Public Relations and is the Coordinator for Social Media and Content material Creation at IRIE! dance theatre. Inês additionally launched diagonal, a communications company that rethinks modern dance as an accessible language for everybody.
