YOUNG AUDIENCES
& SCHOOL SHOWS

SYNOPSIS - ON / OFF

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ON / OFF is a dance work designed for teenagers

and adults where a quartet of dancers performs on

an unusual and wondrous machine: an oversized

treadmill.

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On this rolling and confining surface, physical

movement is both restrained and ecstatic, exhilarated

and acrobatic. Together and alone, the performers

address themes such as identity, self fulfillment,

determination, coexistence, freedom, exhaustion and

the unending feelings and sensations that makeup

the complexity of life. The treadmill is a meeting place

where the characters seek to understand their place

in the world. Sometimes at the mercy, sometimes

in control of this intriguing, unpredictable and

mobilizing machine, they play with time and suspend

actions in space in order to dig out the details of

gestures, questions and interactions. The forever

forward moving device becomes a metaphor for the

passage from childhood to adulthood. It is the path

that we choose to travel and the life that we learn

to tame.