Ticklish

Premiere 2001

'Their daring grapples and jigsaw partnering shapes are gripping'

THE INDEPENDENT

Your body is in unstable equilibrium, you feel insecure, like you are tottering, like you are being seduced by physical amusement yet simultaneously repelled; you are at that blurred point, you are ticklish.

The piece concentrates on this ‘ticklish’ state through relationships. Where friendly competition and playfulness can become aggressive to the point of conflict and fight. The light energy of elusiveness, the teasing and slaps of affection become their own extremes, the alert, quick energy of violence – a caress that becomes a slap.

'Clever and cruel'

TIME OUT

'Vardimon is one of those dancers you can’t take your eyes off. Like an inquisitive cat, she bends and stretches, climbs and crawls, contorting her incredible body into ever more complex positions. She does the same with her choreography.'

THE SCOTSMAN

CREDITS

Concept, Direction & Choreography

Jasmin Vardimon MBE

Created with & Performed by

Luke Burrough, Catherine Gardner, Barney Dillon, Jasmin Vardimon MBE

Also performed by

Hofesh Shechter, Phil Hayes

Artistic Advisor & Video Artwork

Guy Bar-Amotz

Lighting Design

Chahine Yavroyan

Costume Design

Mair Joint

Set Design

Bob Bailey, Mark Hosking

Original Score

Jules Maxwell

Sound Editing

Ohad Fishof

Premiere

2001

Supported by

The Jerwood Award, ACE National Touring programme, DanceXchange, The Oval House, Yorkshire Arts and Yorkshire Dance

ARTICLES & REVIEWS

THE INDEPENDENT

'Their daring grapples and jigsaw partnering shapes are gripping'

TIME OUT

'Clever and cruel'

THE SCOTSMAN

'Vardimon is one of those dancers you can’t take your eyes off. Like an inquisitive cat, she bends and stretches, climbs and crawls, contorting her incredible body into ever more complex positions. She does the same with her choreography.'

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