Kiko (Flesh)
this performance brings together two of Aotearoa’s most influential dance companies - Body Island and Atamira Dance Company to create experimental works in progress by 4 choreographers for tempo dance festival
Kiko allows you to traverse into an evening of film and dance with timeless souls, into a world-ing that acknowledges the fleshly life of all things, bountiful paradises and running towards the queer and ineffable
Springing out from our corporeal embodiment, our skin, we take form to connect us to this place and each other
Body Island’s Co: Directors Kelly Nash and Nancy Wijohn and Atamira Dance Company
Tempo Dance Festival 2022 Q Theatre Loft
Choreographers: Nancy Wijohn, Kelly Nash,(Body Island) Taane Mete and Sean Macdonald (Atamira)
Performers: Caleb Heke, Abbie Rogers, Sean Macdonald, Taane Mete, Nancy Wijohn, Kelly Nash
Reviews
‘The performance is a brilliant sequence of high-intensity vignettes, moving through a wildly eclectic range of performative movement genres. Like a post-lockdown gig, it’s a blur of the dystopian and the heavenly, but it’s also boldly queer.’
‘In a moving duet between partners Kelly Nash and Nancy Wijohn, Kiko shifts gear to soft tissue, closer to the reciprocal tension and fluid glide of connective tissue. As these powerful wāhine move, they heal, and create worlds. As they heal they create worlds to move in. A soulmate dance, wairua breathing in rhythm, they move wisely and efficiently, and love enduringly. Attuned and yet individual. Queer soma as the holistic body. Gender is a broad continuum we move along, its entire spectrum offers gifts. Queerness is the alchemy of the gifts of gender, an invitation to play, but also to pretend, elude and subvert.’
Choreography on video by Sean MacDonald from Atamira Dance Company in collaboration with Body Island for Tempo Dance Festival.
