E-Motional Bodies & Cities invites to the guest performance by
Iona Kewney & Joseph Quimby
(Scotland)
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped off ( 20 min)
June 15th, 2012, 21:00 Rigas Doms Courtyard
In frames of Time To Dance 2012 international dance festival
Photo by Bruno Clement
Iona Kewney: „ We do not write about our work as yet…”
Others:
It is the rawness of humanity in all its powers and failures and extremes of vision, emotion and hysteria in a relentless halluciantory ‘other worldlyness’.
” i witnessed the suffocating intensity of Iona Kewney and could barely speak afterwards- a feral, mesmerising performance -somewhere between dance , improvisation and ritual. ”
The GUardian. Performance Highlights of 2011. Andy Feld.
“There are few originals in any art form…dancer Iona Kewney has the unique combination of skills and experience to count as one of them.”
Gareth K. Vile.2009.
” Loud and fast a single body pushing beyond extremes, a celebration of possibility founded on immaculate technique , “Self-interrupted exhibition” is butoh in expression if not in detail, a profound attempt to make the invisible visible.. she covers unknown ground and forces the audience to gather their own responses.. Iona is for the HARD CORE”
Edinburgh Festival 2009. Gareth K. Vile.
“Iona is a rare imp, a treasure”
“in truth nothing quite prepares you for her opening moves”
“and the absolute Queen of dislocation/discoelation herself, iona kewney..accomplishes moves that would make a corkscrew envious. ”
Mary Brennan , The Herald.
“Meanwhile , Iona Kewney, a real life ‘Wild Child’ whom Alain Platel has learnt not to harness….”
The Telegraph.
“New Territories favourite- and godess of radical dance- ‘Kewney’ reteams with Joseph Quimby to astonish and demolish preconceptions about dance. ”
The Skinny. 2011.
“it is the confidence and understanding which appear to endow Kewney with the ability to transform, making it more an experiment with human form. She contorts into a series of what i can only describe as evolutionally possibilities; its borderline hallucinatory. These movements i feel i have only previously seen in animation…. she not only has control over her body but the space she inhabits .. this this moment is declaration of control: within this space Kewney is Everything”
The Double negative. C James Fragan. 2012.
“What do you do with a talent like Iona Kewney’s ? The scottish dance artist is unquestiobnably one of the most distinctive performers, an artist with extraordinary flexible body, a lively imagination and -to judge from recent works- a keen sense of the absurd.”
THe Scotsman . Christopher Bowen.
To read more about Iona Kewney, please, visit:
http://www.ionakewneyandjosephquimby.com/
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