Isabelle Schad / Good Work Productions

With Turning Solo, Isabelle Schad continues a series of works which attempt to create distinct and personal portraits through a purely physical approach, moulding respective rhythms and energies into choreographed experiences.

Turning Solo – the portrait for Naïma Ferré – is based on her fascination with spinning for long periods. This whirling practice is brought into dialogue with Schad’s research around axial and weight shift, around inner movement material and its extension into the world, around energetic fields that characterise oneself and others. Little by little an initially minimalist study in movement becomes a shimmering jewel, a rotating sculpture, the choreographic portrait of a dancer.

Since 2020, the work has been reworked for dancer and choreographer Jasmin İhraç, and her interpretation made it become its own universe: another person, another portrait.

Both versions are unique and stand for themselves.