The Art of Not Looking Back

Commissioned by Brighton Festival, The Art of Not Looking Back is a new work by Shechter inspired by, and made for, the world-class female dancers of the Hofesh Shechter Company.  Physical, complex and unrelenting Shechter’s favoured theme of ‘man against the world’ is presented in a different and entrancing light.

Première:  14th May 2009, Brighton Festival
Original cast: Eulalia Ayguade Farro, Winifred Burnet-Smith, Victoria Hoyland, Yen Ching Lin, Sita Ostheimer, Ino Riga

Lighting Design: Lee Curran
Costume Design: Becs Andrews

Additional music:
Excerpt from LITANY IV from SIX LITANIES FOR HELIOGABALUS
composed by John Zorn, performed by Mike Patton, solo voice
used with the kind permission of Tzadik recordings

Commissioned by: Brighton Festival 2009.
Restaged in 2011 with support from DanceXchange.