“This is a picture of you, falling. Knees, hip, hands, elbows, head. This is how you collapse. This is the sound of your heart hitting the floor.
The You Show is a full-length work created by Crystal Pite, artistic director of Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM. This innovative production features nine exceptional dancers and original music from long-time Kidd Pivot collaborator Owen Belton. The You Show is made up of four short works: ‘A Picture of You Falling’, ‘The Other You’, ‘Das Glashaus’ and ‘A Picture of You Flying’.”
“NOTES FROM CRYSTAL PITE
The four works presented in The You Show come out of my fascination with familiar storylines of love, conflict and loss, and the body’s role in providing the illustrative shape of those stories. The body can convey profound meaning through the simplest of gestures, and the analysis of familiar human action provides an opportunity to recognize and re-frame ourselves in each other. I want the performance to connect with you and your own body. I invite you to locate yourself in the dancer, to recognize your own dramas translated into fierce physical language, and to see yourself falling and flying as the hero of your own existence. Life, whether you are superhuman or simply human, is epic.”