Eleven years after the original solo—which laid the foundations of Oona Doherty’s distinctive artistic language—Leather Jacket is reborn in an amplified version: still minimalist, fiercely physical, and driven by a sharply rhythmic, almost incantatory poetry. With no narrative, text or set, the new work is built on rhythm and the repetitive movement of bounces and stretches. A technique practised daily by the artist, here transformed into what she describes as “a wild mutation.”
This slow process of transformation begins in silence, with only the sound of bodies, before unfolding in a crescendo over funky house–inspired motifs by Federico Ortica and Luca Truffarelli. The aim is for the group to become the dancefloor itself—for the floor to crackle—and for her “frenzied, shouted poetry to evolve into a physical group chorus.”
In Doherty’s work, dance moves through music or silence as much as through language; words and gestures intertwine in a powerful urban vocabulary, infused with bodily percussion and social reality. She continually pushes beyond boundaries and divisions, reinventing a visceral form of dance.
Coproduction Festival de Marseille.
En coréalisation avec la Mairie des 15-16e arrondissements de Marseille.
La représentation à Marseille reçoit le soutien du British Council.
