overview
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.
news
- Turning Solo @ Humboldthain 23 January 2021
- Turning Solo @ Globe Theatre 26 September 2020
- Turning Solo at Mute Festival in Gent 19 December 2018
- @ DanceInn Festival 16 September 2018
- @Lazareti Dubrovnik 16 September 2018
- Turning Solo at Wiesenburg-Festival 2018 30 August 2018
- Showings @ Wiesenburg: Turning Solo 2 July 2017