Eye-soothing synchronisation, syncopation, mirroring and the dancers’ personal connection made Swapping Shadows joyfully easy to watch.
– Stephanie Brown, Resolution reviews
Dancers: Shivaangee Agrawal & Yanaëlle Thiran
Costume design: Akshy Marayen
Lighting design: Sally Somerville-Woodiwis
Choreography: Yanaëlle Thiran
Music: Mehmet Polat Trio, Oneira, Joris Vanvinckenroye and Wouter Vandenabeele
Texts: Yanaëlle Thiran and Kathryn Rock (read by Shivaangee Agrawal)
Duration: 19 minutes
A stunning inspirational piece!
– Audience member (2018)
Past performance dates:
- 19/10/2019: Dance Festival Croydon
- 07/10/2018: Quinzena de Dança de Almada, Portugal
- 23/01/2018: Premiere at The Place, London, as part of Resolution 2018
- 08/12/2017: Sharing of a work in progress at the Bunker Theatre, London
- 03/12/2017: Sharing of a work in progress at Chestnuts Community Centre
Beautiful music and lighting and I enjoyed every moment of it. It lifted my spirit and made me excited about dance!
– Zoe Georgallis, dance artist
Swapping Shadows had the benefit of two very impressive performers, choreographer Yanaëlle Thiran, and Shivaangee Agrawal. In their solos, each woman confidently held the stage and working together they mirrored the eponymous shadows in interesting and effective choreography.
– Maggie Foyer for Seeing Dance (29/01/2018)
Thiran’s piece blends style, cultural context, formal dance inquiry, and imagistic lighting into an intelligent and mature piece. It accomplishes in its own way what all modally necessary art should do in that it isn’t a work that can’t be easily summed up in words. Its experiential content is such that is can’t be reduced to a statement and to translate it from dance into speech dilutes it. It must be experienced to be grasped. That it is a dance is essential to its nature and it’s therefore a real contribution to the form: an elucidation of the power of dance as a language in of itself.
– David Evans (20/02/2018)
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