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Something dark and playful this way comes…ABOUT THE PIECE
“Sometimes I have to lean in...” is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Alan Parker and Gerard Bester, originally commissioned by the Dance Umbrella festival in 2018, specifically for the 30th anniversary of the festival. The work has since been restaged for the Live Art Festival in Cape Town and, most recently, for the 2024 National Arts Festival in Makhanda, for their 50th anniversary.
The work is a sometimes playful, sometimes dark, consideration of the act of leaning. On one level, the performance is a leaning in of two ageing performers, who lean in closer in order to better see and understand each other. On another level, this act of leaning is explored as a metaphor for looking back to where you have come from in order to understand where you are now.
It strikes a delicate balance between humour and light-hearted reminiscing, alongside more poignant interrogations of what the passing of time means for us, as humans in the world, as we influence, support, encourage, knock down and ultimately transform each other. “Sometimes I have to lean in…” has been described by critics as “a sheer gem of a work” (Robyn Sassen, My View), “a moment of triumph” (Mike Loewe, Daily Dispatch), and “highly recommended” (Sarah Roberson, The Critter).
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Lier theatre. University Of Pretoria. Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa
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