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Out Innerspace Dance Theatre (Netherlands) - BYGONES

Buckle up for the dazzling dance theatre of Out Innerspace Dance Theatre, an exciting contemporary dance company from Vancouver. You are sucked into a fantasy world of illusions of the "how-can-this-be?" variety. Lighting and video projections create walls of light, or shadows to be engulfed by or to escape from.

Five dancers are trapped in a dark time-space vacuum, stripped of all laws and logic. They are propelled by visible and invisible forces. Again and again, their world comes apart at the seams. And when it seems to be under control, the whole thing comes crashing down again. No ground is solid, literally – sometimes the dancers freeze horizontally in a vacuum, while the sky begins to growl and even the cosy tea corner rattles dangerously.

Bygones means something like "what's done" and we know that such things cannot be undone. We take all the wrong turns, unconquered fears and unfulfilled dreams from our past with us into the future. They continue to pursue us, as choreographers David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen show in a stream of obsessed images. Yet there is also room for hopeful expectations. After all, as human beings we are surely powerful enough to colour our own future?

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