To break the chains that turn flesh rancid and to breach the fetters that bind the heart, takes the gall and grit that only a freak of Shakespearean audacity can ignite without being consumed in the brazen fire of Art.
Very few have what it takes to throw off the well tried practice of well worn kudos and established norms and come out triumphant. Among the rare, happy few is choreographer Shaun Parker.
If you want to be blown away by a choreographic language as gutsy and heart wrenching as Shakespeare’s poetry, don’t miss KING by Shaun Parker and Company.
Parker’s collaboration with composer/singer Ivo Dimchev will stun and delight and even move the most languid of bystanders.
KING is a tantalising feast of lightning fast gesture, lyrical storytelling and flock like synchronicity, beautifully and tightly held by Dimchev’s seductive musicianship and mesmerising voice.
Every bit as supple, expressive and engaging as Ohad Naharin’s legendary Batsheva Dance Company, Shaun Parker and Company bring a fresh crispness to dancers fully accomplished in the visceral intercourse of human connection and acerbic drama.
The show is a map of how to dance through fear and madness to intimacy and authentic union: a tale of tossing the shackles of submission and having the temerity to plunge naked against the crowd and find a home nowhere but in transparency’s heart and love’s mortal flesh.
KING by Shaun Parker and Company is at the Everest Theatre at the Seymour Centre until the 24th February, 2019.
Stunning… profoundly beautiful… mind blowing… I left the theatre spechless