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In No Change or ‘freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill’ , DD Dorvillier (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1967) interweaves bodies, objects and sounds in a playful act of resistance. The performance premiered in 2005, and now, twenty years later, will be presented once more at the Holland Festival at Frascati.
'I loved this work. It left an impression. I always want to see it again. I’m happy I don’t know why. That’s art that interests me.'
- Trajal Harrell, associate artist Holland Festival 2025
A sensory exploration unfolds onstage. Together with dancer Elizabeth Ward, Dorvillier creates a performative landscape of microphones, cables and light installations. She handles the lighting and sound herself, getting caught up in objects, resulting in a physical struggle. Seth Cluett’s sound design full of ambient sounds, thumping, dragging and scratching, and Thomas Dunn’s intimate lighting design add to the intense atmosphere.
No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” marks a pivotal moment in Dorvillier’s artistic development and working methods and became a point of reference for her later work. It was performed again in 2010 at St. Mark’s Church as part of Danspace Project’s platform certain difficulties, certain joy, curated by Trajal Harrell.
'I am very happy to bring choreographer and dancer DD Dorvillier to the festival. She is someone I met in New York, and I have a very long history with.'
- Trajal Harrell, associate artist Holland Festival 2025
dates
Tue June 17 9:00 PM
Wed June 18 9:00 PM
prices
- default € 23
- CJP/student/scholar € 15
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Language no problem
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55 minutes (zonder pauze)
No Change, or "freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill"
Commissioned by Danspace Project (New York City) in 2005, as part of its Out-of-Space series No Change or "freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” marks a pivotal moment in Dorvillier's artistic trajectory, an important conceptual and aesthetic shift in her artistic approach. The piece was re-commissioned in 2010 by Danspace Project as part of its 2010 Platform, “certain difficulties, certain joy” curated by Trajal Harrel.
No Change or "freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” presupposes horizontality in the relationships between, and perceptions of, object, body, and sound, and this premise underscores all its actions. Dorvillier plays her body like an object, an image, or a portrait of agency. She uses sound as a protagonist, an object in itself, or to frame the movement of things, of postures and gestures. We experience groundlessness within a chaotic terrain of in-between spaces, unmediated actions, and sharp thinking. It's promise to itself? “There are no mistakes”.
“No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” disturbs signifying and solipsistic logic as objects dance and dancers lie still and silent on the floor. There is a migratory freedom of movement in Dorvillier’s engagement with objects, the realigning of the trajectories of cords and effects of the studio, and in her intimate play with architectural idiosyncrasy. Yet the quality of movement also calls attention to the circumscription of this freedom, reminding us that gesture is always responsive to and interrogated by the spaces and objects of its surround. Perhaps this is what lends the piece its precarious quality, the acknowledgement that freedom is a skill that is always contingent and provisional.”
Quote from : Blog #4 by Platform dramaturg-in-residence Jenn Joy
October 25, 2010
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No Change, or "freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill"
Thomas Dunn
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No Change, or "freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill"
Thomas Dunn
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DD Dorvillier - dancer, choreographer
William Dorvillier
