Icosa A dance company

Repertory

Small Hours

Made in a kitchen in the first lockdown, for three dancers who could not be in the same room.

First performed
2,020
Running time
22 minutes
Dancers
3
Music
Recorded rain, and an upright piano with two dead keys
Travelled
6.2 radii

Choreographed over a video call, learned separately, and put together in a single afternoon in August 2020. It stays low and it stays direct, which is what a kitchen gives you.

High right — Door plane High left — Door plane Deep right — Door plane Deep right Deep left — Door plane Deep left Forward high — Wheel plane Forward deep — Wheel plane Back high — Wheel plane Back deep — Wheel plane Right forward — Table plane Right forward Right back — Table plane Left forward — Table plane Left forward Left back — Table plane

The phrase, written down

5 reaches · 60% of them in the door plane · 6.2 radii travelled

  1. Deep left Door plane start
  2. Deep right Door plane 1.05
  3. Left forward Table plane 1.70
  4. Right forward Table plane 1.70
  5. Deep left Door plane 1.70

The last column is the straight-line distance from the previous reach, in kinesphere radii. Two is right across the body; the shortest possible step between two of the twelve is 1.05.

How it is danced

Basic Effort Action

Glide

Light, sustained, direct. A hand moved across a surface without pressing it.

Weight
Light Strong
How much the body commits its mass. Not how hard the dancer works.
Time
Sustained Sudden
The attitude to time, not the tempo. A slow piece can be full of suddenness.
Space
Indirect Direct
Whether attention goes everywhere at once or to one place.
Flow
Free Bound
How readily the movement could be stopped half way. Not part of the action names.

Also in the repertoire