Libra
Choreographer: George Williamson
Dancers: Ksenia Ovsyanick & Nancy Osbaldeston
"My style is developing as I question how can we tell stories that represent our society now? The idea of switching roles in pas de deux, for instance, is interesting. It makes you challenge traditional assumptions about partnering, yes, but I think this alone is overly simplistic. If we keep to the mechanism of there being one person standing behind the other, supporting or lifting them, be it man or woman, there still isn’t equality in that. It doesn’t reflect the world we live in and, on top of that, the form remains stuck in the two-dimensional model. It’s really challenging to break away from certain norms because these traditions are so engrained in us from the start of our training."
