Swept

Swept is a series of manic, off-the-cuff duets that flow easily from one to the next and generate an instantly open rapport with an audience

SWEPT is a site specific duet which fuses dance, text, music, light and sound. In this physical journey of fun and friendship, SWEPT takes place in the intimate Peacock Theatre foyer bar. Animating these areas offers a new set of rules and possibilities spring boarding the action into a universe where anything is possible. The two performers share a friendly banter and sweep the audience along with them.

Deceptively simple, it’s a boy-meets-girl love story, infused with a playful and knowing regard for the everyday

There is a playfulness and joyousness in the performance that transmits itself directly to the audience

Their final pas de deux, which illustrates the beauty of an interdependent relationship…puts a lovely cap on a fun and smart show

Gallery

Two figures in movement against a blank white wall

Two figures seated by a blank wall with shadows being cast behind them

Two figures in movement on a single chair with one clasping the other's head with both hands

Two figures in movement in a narrow rectangular space

Two dancers in movement in a narrow rectangular set

Two figures on top of a bar counter - one seated feeding the other lying on their stomach

A figure in movement leaning over the counter of a bar

Performed at

performances

The Venue Bar

Kilkenny

11 - 15 August 2004

Premiere

Peacock Theatre

Dublin

13 November 2003

Credits

Cast David Bolger, Diane O’Keefe

Choreographer David Bolger
Lighting Sinéad McKenna
Sound Ciaran Eaton
Costume Joan O’Clery
Hair & Make-up Val Sherlock
Technical Director Tony Wakefield
Stage Director Pamela McQueen

Swept

Swept

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