Jo Lloyd
OVERTURE
OVERTURE
When Jo Lloyd was young, she would pretend to interview famous people she’d like to meet. OVERTURE is an extension of that, a dance that considers the unrequited, the unattainable and our attempts to connect with particular beings of obsession.
The original stimulus for creating OVERTURE came from Felix Mendelssohn’s Concert Overture for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It brought to light Fanny Mendelssohn, the sister, the genius, the one who was only permitted to shimmer a fraction of what she could. It bought out stories that were never shared, things never said and desires never fulfilled. The music was the departure point for a larger investigation into ideas of permission, being audible, pilgrimages, shared fictions, history making, overdue and redundant conversations, glorification, and a desire to penetrate.
Lloyd’s choreography moves gloriously on the precipices of the possible and unthinkable. Her performers shake, run, halt, throw limbs and memories out through the ends of their fingers, as they invoke lost heroes to play out impossible scenarios.
The original stimulus for creating OVERTURE came from Felix Mendelssohn’s Concert Overture for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It brought to light Fanny Mendelssohn, the sister, the genius, the one who was only permitted to shimmer a fraction of what she could. It bought out stories that were never shared, things never said and desires never fulfilled. The music was the departure point for a larger investigation into ideas of permission, being audible, pilgrimages, shared fictions, history making, overdue and redundant conversations, glorification, and a desire to penetrate.
Lloyd’s choreography moves gloriously on the precipices of the possible and unthinkable. Her performers shake, run, halt, throw limbs and memories out through the ends of their fingers, as they invoke lost heroes to play out impossible scenarios.