The gazes of the five dancers are focused and turned inward. The movements—executed with great precision by the Berlin-based Dance On Ensemble in various configurations—seem to be explored and probed by all of them simultaneously. At first, it is just Alba Barral Fernández and Lia Witjes Poole; they do not dance with one another, and their movements are not identical—it is their pacing and the initiation of impulses that connect them. Anna Herrmann joins in and begins to mirror Fernández’s movements. Meanwhile, in the space in front of the two, Poole continues to pursue her own sequences in counterpoint. Dominic Santia and Marco Volta enter with new unison movement sequences, which Poole joins after a short while.
The pace is calm at the start, with the timing punctuated by short, powerful ...
