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Oona Doherty (Ireland) - Navy Blue

In Navy Blue, the inky blue night descends on a group of twelve dancers of different ages and from different backgrounds. They are dressed in identical navy blue work overalls – or are they prison uniforms? Like a classical corps de ballet, they dance to Rachmaninov's insidiously romantic second piano concerto, trapped within a destructive algorithm. Does the source of liberation lie in this relentless disruption of the status quo?

Based on her ambivalent relationship with ballet, the hierarchical dance style she admires for its form and athletic ability on the one hand, and describes as "a theatrical symbol of oppression" on the other, Doherty goes in search of dance that serves as a catalyst for social change in a world fraught with exploitation. Doherty: "Navy Blue is about how we stand as tiny dots on our blue dot and fight each other to control a fraction of that damn dot."

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