EVENT
A Heidi Latsky / ALLIGER ARTS Production
GIMP
- Venue: Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs
- Dates: Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 May
- Nationality: USA
- Time: 8.00pm
- Duration: 75 mins (including aerial prologue, no interval)
- Tickets: €22 (Full Price) / €18 (Concession) / €17 (Early Bird)
"GIMP is without doubt a gleaming milestone in the progress of contemporary dance and theater, proving that the term "disabled dancer" is an oxymoron." Theodore Bale, Dance Magazine
GIMP: gimp (gimp)
1. a ribbonlike, braided fabric 2. fighting spirit; vigour
3. a lame person 4. slang; a halting, lame walk
5. to turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically
Redefining virtuosity through the collision of disability and dance, GIMP examines the uncompromising ways we are often identified or defined by our physicality. GIMP confronts our preconceptions, challenging us to re-think conventional notions about dance, performance and body image.
GIMP is a word we are taught not to use as we are taught not to stare at people who have physical disabilities. But GIMP also means ‘fighting spirit’, ‘interwoven fabric’ and ‘trembling with ecstasy’, and it is all those meanings that truly define GIMP, the performance. Creating a tangible sensuality, a touch of
voyeurism, GIMP forces our eyes and minds to perceive beauty not as a static artifact of conventional perfection but as a dynamic construct of effort and intentionality.
Direction and choreography: Heidi Latsky
Heidi Latsky Dance has been supported by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation’s USArtists International program.
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
US Embassy
