Holdin' Fast @ Zoo Southside

The dancers of the RootlessRoot Company invite you to ‘immerse yourself into the deepest visions of sexual fantasy’. The underlying message comes from Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being: ‘Woman longs to be weighted down by the man’s body’. Whether or not this is true, the artists explore Kundera’s words with great intensity and talent.

Combining the physical with the sexual, the dynamic interaction between the dancers gradually unveils the darkness of sexual dependence and insatiable desires. The piece starts innocently with girls and boys flirting playfully, but the sexual escapade ends with physical exhaustion and the annihilation of lovers who devour each other, almost literally. Slightly overlong dance sequences are interrupted with intellectual rambling monologues, only to prepare us for more and more frantic and dramatic movement. The lovers’ craving will never be fulfilled, their secret affairs hidden under the carpet – Holdin' Fast is and imaginative and evocative piece.