'The Hollow Men' (2005)

Photo by Chapter Arts Centre

A performance exploring the dark, haunting, pained and empty world of two characters inspired by T.S.Eliot's poem of the same title. The poem is a commentary on increasingly alienated individuals of the modern post industrial, post (1st) world war existence. Questions of identity, meaning and religion are woven into the fabric of a text continually evolving, descriptive of place, at times evoking children's song and at others worshiping prayer, reminiscent of one's own 'life journey/s'.

The over bearing thrust of the work for us was the protagonist's evolution of hope (from hope to hopelessness) and the recognition of their own material and spiritual search being empty. Characters seeking meaning in a richly symbolic and iconografic place which boasts and promises much for the individual, but over time the flames of hope are smothered and so it concludes in a dull cadence of finality - in fact, in 'a whimper'.


'The Hollow men' was conceived and put together for the second phase of the WiD (Welsh Independent Dance) dance competition 'Dance Bytes' 2005, held at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. Equaldoubt used the T.S.Eliot poem of the same title as the point of departure for movement and abstract narrative.

Directed/Choreographed

Equaldoubt


Performed

Agnieszka Blonska
Sean Palmer


Music

Leka-Poleka by ZigZag Trio
Dejo Dance - Emir Kusturica
Bulgarian Dance - Emir Kusturica

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'Dance Bytes' Wid Dance Platform 2006