WHEN:
November 13-17, 2024
WHERE:
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue (at the corner of 19th Street)
NY
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...thought-provoking work that explores the thin boundaries between human freedom, pack mentality and social control...
Set as a playground of ironies, WONDERLAND examines the primal instincts that govern individual expression and group dynamics. The work delves into the tensions between nonconformity and self-preservation, humor and fear, present joys and future insecurities, through the fierce and virtuosic movement of GALLIM’s dancers. They are joined by guest artists Billy Barry, a former member of Batsheva Dance Company, and Arika Yamada, dancer with Gothenburg Ballet. Both Barry and Yamada originated their roles in the 2010 premiere. The sound design by Jakub Kiupinski and Cristina Spinei of Blind Ear Music enhances the work’s unsettling atmosphere, giving a charming yet eerie edge to Miller’s choreography.
Conceived by Miller as an anti-totalitarian dystopia, the early idea of WONDERLAND was sparked by her sighting of Cai Guo-Qiang's Head On, an installation that features 99 wolves charging at a glass wall. With the expansion of ideological extremisms, social tribalism and conflicts in every region of the World, WONDERLAND has gained renewed relevance today. The work hints at often-invisible forces that drive us apart and make us prey to oppressive methods of control. WONDERLAND’s subtle juxtapositions of individual appetites, survival instincts and collective anxieties shed light onto the insidious mechanisms of herd behavior, social alienation and political subjugation by ways of terror, oblivion, and repression of individual freedoms…"
