Starving Dingoes - 2021

Such was the power of madness, announcing man's senseless secret, that the lowest point of his fall is also his first morning - Michel Foucault

Starving Dingoes is a rite.
Vividly carved from the marble of our most primal fears, it is a journey through which is bent in every directions, the theme of our ineluctable destiny.

It is like in a film where a group of people is lost on a desert island and to survive they have to eat one of them. 


FUTURE DATES 
Saturday 4th March 2023 / 19:30 
The Place, London (UK)
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Thursday 9th March 2023 / TTBC 
Undisciplined Festival, South East Dance 
Attenborough Centre, Brighton (UK)
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PRESS
Starving Dingoes, is vividly carved from the marble of our most primal fears. And if the audience stayed quiet in front of Tirabasso’s tenebrous vision, it is because it was clearly impossible to remain indifferent to the obscure forces flowing from the piece. (…) It is a piece that is frank, new, hyper-dark and impactful. It is a testimony rendered through dance, not looking for the beauty or the ugly, but simply looking for the right. (…) 
Starving Dingoes is a beautiful show of knowable and yet bizarre choreography: new, real, and passionate. (…) 
Godefroy Gordet, LAND (LU)
FULL ARTICLE HERE (FR)

Survival exercice, sink or swim, this piece shakes the collective body’s piggy bank in a transe of madness.
FB of Rosita Boisseau journalist for Le Monde (FR)

UFO in the landscape of dance (...) Unexplored depths of our brain, like a return to the origins of life... The piece is disconcerting and astonishing. Unclassifiable
Patrick Denis, La Provence (FR)
FULL ARTICLE HERE (FR)

Strange, Eccentric and furious. 
Starving Dingoes encapsulates the unbridled ferocity in humanity’s urgency for survival in the face of the brutal offerings of life.
Kelly Hood, Era Journal (UK)
​FULL ARTICLE HERE (EN)

It is the humbling humour of Starving Dingoes that makes its unexpected vision of life and death all the more accessible. Tirabasso and her team have done something more than create a show (…) with such conceptual vigour and emotional urgency. It could even become, if it hasn’t already, an allegory of our time. 
Nicholas Minns, Writing about dance (UK)
FULL ARTICLE HERE (EN)

Tirabasso’s full-impact choreography is brutally demanding. 
There is a feral ferociousness to the dancers’ interactions that can be explicitly violent or sexual.
You have to admire choreographer Léa Tirabasso’s determination to bring her singular high-concept vision to the stage. 
Siobhan Murphy, The Stage (UK)

Starving Dingoes is very much a “show, don’t tell” situation, eccentrically illustrating the microscopic dramas of life and death. Sometimes you see shows (…) you have to admire, for their singularity, their bullish lack of compromise and the commitment of the performers. Léa Tirabasso’s Starving Dingoes is one such show.  
Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian (UK)

Bodies are adrenalised with involuntary jerks and twitches, posture distorted, and fingers spiked as if electrocuted. They communicate through messy, primal impulse, a pre-language.
No choice, no joy, just a harrowing relentlessness.
Finally, the exhausted dancers settle in this Martian desert, like the remnants of society choking on its own chaotic creations, in which humans, more than ever, are interdependent.
Surfacing from animalistic hysterics to take their bow, the five performers are unrecognisable.
Georgia Howlett, Springback Magazine   
FULL ARTICLE HERE (EN)
It is both joyful and tragic and inspires us to question the innate desire we all have to belong. 
Janine Henderson, Behind the arras (UK)
FULL ARTICLE HERE (EN)
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The movement vocabulary becomes even more agitated, quirky, yet remains oddly beautiful, certainly compelling. Bodies twitch and jerk. They shuffle and edge around each other. There are strong hints of uncertainty. 
David Mead, Seeing Dance (UK)
FULL ARTICLE HERE (EN)

Nature itself is at the image of the choreography: in its appearance disorganized but in its depths, pertinently crafted. 
Peter Avondo, Snobinart (FR)
FULL ARTICLE HERE (FR)


Choreographer / Director:      Léa Tirabasso
Producer:         Vasanthi Argouin
Administrator:          Sousana Eang
Dancers:      Catarina Barbosa, Laura Patay/Lauren Jenkins/Stefania Pinato, Karl Fagerlund Brekke, Alistair Goldsmith/William Cardoso, Laura Lorenzi 
Composer:     Johanna Bramli & Ed Chivers
Lighting and Set Designer:     Nicolas Tremblay, Thomas Bernard 
Scientific Advisors:      Simone Niclou, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj
Philosophy Advisor:      Thomas Stern
Animal Transformation Coach:      Gabrielle Moleta
Clown:             Peta Lily
PR (Avignon Festival):          Cédric Chaory
PR (UK tour 2022):          Chloé Nelkin
PR (UK tour 2023):          Martha Oaks, Sue Lancashire

R&D Photo & teaser credit: Camilla Greenwell
Stage Photo credit: Bohumil Kostohryz

CONTACTS

Touring & international development
Vicenç Mayans 
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https://www.palosantoprojects.com

Press Agent
UK TOUR (2021)
Chloé Nelkin 
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https://www.chloenelkinconsulting.com 
FESTIVAL AVIGNON (2021)
​Cédric Chaory
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http://cedricchaorycommunication.fr 
UK TOUR (2023)
Martha Oakes

Administration
Sousana Eang
[email protected]

Production
Vasanthi Argouin 
[email protected] 

Technique
Nicolas Tremblay
[email protected] 

Artistic Director
Léa Tirabasso 
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SUPPORTS

Co-produced by
Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (LU)
Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape, direction Yuval PICK, dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-Studio (FR)
Commissioned by
The Place, London (UK)
Dance East, Ipswich (UK) 
Supported by
TROIS C-L, Centre de Création Luxembourgeois (LU)
Avec le soutien de la Maison de la Danse pour le prêt de studio (FR)
Le CN D, Lyon (FR)
La Chapelle / Cie La Baraka – Abou Lagraa & Nawal Aït Benalla en partenariat avec Agglo En Scènes - Théâtre des Cordeliers (FR)
Fond Culturel National du Luxembourg FOCUNA (LU)
DanceXchange, Birmingham (UK)
​Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England (UK) 
Fondation Indépendance (LU)