Holland Festival: No Change or "freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill"

A sensory exploration unfolds onstage. Together with dancer Elizabeth Ward, Dorvillier creates a performative landscape of microphones, cables and light installations. She handles the lighting and sound herself, getting caught up in objects, resulting in a physical struggle.

Seth Cluett’s sound design full of ambient sounds, thumping, dragging and scratching, and Thomas Dunn’s intimate lighting design add to the intense atmosphere.

No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” marks a pivotal moment in Dorvillier’s artistic development and working methods and became a point of reference for her later work. It was performed again in 2010 at St. Mark’s Church as part of Danspace Project’s platform “certain difficulties, certain joy”, curated by Trajal Harrell. As the associate artist of Holland Festival, Trajal says the following about No change or "freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill": 

"I am very happy to bring choreographer and dancer DD Dorvillier to the festival. She is someone I met in New York, and I have a very long history with. She will do one of her pieces that I love, called No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill"."

Meet the artist: DD Dorvillier

The Amercian choreographer and performer DD Dorvillier has been active in the experimental dance scene since the early 1990s. During an after talk on Tuesday June 17th DD talks with Maaike Muis about her work that is known for taking a conceptual approach and challenging traditional dance conventions.