The piece
Back on Track is three women dancing in unison, almost racing, alongside the fast beats of John Zorn’s jazz, each maintaining a stubborn and fascinating status of individuality. Using humourous textual interludes, tight intricate choreography and an inspired jazz score this stylistic piece challenges the audience’s perception of time and reality.
A performer’s premonition of how the piece will unfold forces the audience to focus acutely on the detail in order to decipher whether the performer was merely jesting or indeed spoke the truth. The dancers move through the steps casually and comfortably, yet everything is intricately choreographed, incorporating pedestrian movement into otherwise abstract contemporary forms.
The result is a neat and charming package which explores the relationship between precision and awkwardness.
2 comments:
‘Frauke Requardt’s Back On Track is a lighter, slighter trio for herself, Kate Jackson and Gabriele Reuter. The deadpan cast executes off-beat, wiveling rhythms to a John Zorn jazz track, interrupted by their own post-modern commentary about the dance itself. Midway there’s a mysterious little red-lit interlude to chimey music by Roger Goula. The quarter hour piece bears the quirky imprint of Requardt’s work as a dancer with Lea Anderson’s female group The Cholmondeleys, not a bad thing.’
Donald Hutera, Dance Europe
‘Frauke Requardt dancing with Janina Rajakangas and Gabriele Reuter, Back on Track was a premier in which the three often moved together in loose syncopated ways. None of the movement seemed grand or obvious dance moves and yet there was such a simple harmony, magnified by the Jazz score with a constant double bass riff driving it forward.’
Bruce Marriott, Ballet Co
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