Barricades and Legacies: Chiron in Aries, Recital #3, a piece of 7 dancers, brings to the forefront an unbridled, virtuosic and meticulously detailed dance. It is conceived as an epic, a long poem depicting a mythological world. Expressing turmoil and urgency, each dancer engages in bold, rebellious dances, in solos and duos. Progressively a collective emerges, with queer kinship as a foundation.

The piece is the third chapter of the Chiron in Aries cycle of pieces, which references Greek mythology and its absorption by astrology. Following Warriors: Chiron in Aries, Recital #1 (2020) and Hope: Chiron in Aries, Recital #2 (2021), both presented at Inkonst. In Greek mythology, Chiron was a Centaur raised by Apollo who initiated him to the arts of healing, music and prophecy, which made him different from the other violent and unruly Centaurs. When he was hit by a poisoned arrow he was left with a wound that never healed. In astrology, the minor planet Chiron is called “the wounded healer” and represents our deepest wounds and our capacity to heal. The sign Aries represents the ego, willpower, desire and the warrior within us. When Chiron is in Aries (as between 2018 and 2027), it addresses our deepest wounds in relation to our sense of self and our capacity to heal them.

Choreography: Frédéric Gies

Dance: Brittanie Brown, Frédéric Gies, Andreas Haglund, Disa Krosness, Julia Plawgo, Elizabeth Ward, Declan Whitaker

Music: Fiedel

Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo

Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

Coproduced by Inkonst and Weld / Residence support by MARC and Skogen / with the support of Kulturrådet, Malmö Stad and Region Skåne

Inkonst, Malmö, September/October 2022

Weld, Stockholm, October 2022