"We started with wanting to change the world with a performance. We felt like idiots. Then we danced a lot. We jumped. We called on the folk traditions of Sardinia and the Basque Country. We sang. We jumped some more. We committed. Now we promise to stick together. We promise to persevere. We promise to do our best."
Idiot-Syncrasy is a dance performance by Igor and Moreno that uses jumping – both literally and metaphorically – to explore our capacity to persevere, care and hope. It is both playful and serious in how it welcomes audiences, whilst gently demanding that they too are responsible for noticing change and difference.
Can we talk?
Public-artist conversation after the show.
Duration: 60min.
Age Rating: M/6
Created & Performed by:
Igor Urzelai and Moreno Solinas
Artistic Associate:
Simon Ellis
Voice Coach:
Melanie Pappenheim
Lighting Design:
Seth Rook Williams
Sound Design:
Alberto Ruiz Soler
Set and Costume Design:
KASPERSOPHIE
Photographer:
Alicia Clarke
Producer:
Davide Pisano
Administration:
Anna Paola Della Chiesa
Commissioned by:
The Place
Created using funding from:
Arts Council funding through Grants for the Arts
With support from:
TIR danza, Yorkshire Dance, Cambridge Junction, Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Bassano (Italy) and BAD Festival in Bilbao.
Igor x Moreno is the name under which the works created by choreographers Igor Urzelai Hernando (Beasain, Spain, 1983) and Moreno Solinas (Sassari, Italy, 1987) – in collaboration with an extended group of artists – are presented.
Igor x Moreno’s works stem from a fascination for people and what makes us such special animals. They use choreography and mostly non-verbal languages to create experiences which can surprise, energise and unsettle. Their works – highly constructed whilst deeply concerned with liveness – visit and escape different genres and styles.
Igor x Moreno’s creative processes favour questions over answers, action over narration, communication over expression, alterity over diversity, patience over productivity. They don’t see entertainment as their duty, but as a useful communication tool. They work with rigour and playfulness. They value pointlessness.
The team – based across Europe – gathers in Sardinia and London, from where Igor x Moreno’s works have toured extensively in Europe and also in North and South America, Africa and Asia. Awards and recognitions include the Rudolf Laban Award and National Dance Awards and Total Theatre Awards nominations; their works have been selected for Aerowaves (2011, 2013 and 2015), NID Platform, British Council Showcase and British Dance Edition.
Moreno Solinas and Igor Urzelai Hernando are affiliate artists of The Place (London), they are co-artistic directors of Sardinian production company S’ALA (www.s-ala.com) and are board members of the Cultural Advisory Board of British Council Italy.