If one keeps walking…
If One Keeps Walking is a work by Hagit Yakira dance. It’s a site-responsive, experiential performance event that sees a cast of five exceptional professional dancers performing alongside a participatory cast of up to 50 people of all ages and abilities, drawn from the local community.
Audiences are taken on a journey that begins outside; walking and watching, in and through the urban environment, using subtle invitations from performers as a guide. The journey is simultaneously quiet, animated, solitary and together. It culminates in a (theatre) setting, where an original composition by Sabio Janiak is complemented by a live voice artist and the full cast perform together in a space without delineation. Boundaries between audience, performers and dancers are blurred to create a uniquely human experience.
Collaborators - UK:
Performers Sophie Arstall, Verena Schneider, Jennifer-Lynn Crawford and Tiia Ojala;
Apprentices Live Skullerud and Wilhelmina Ojanen;
Sound artist Portia Winter,
Composer Sabio Janiak
Dramaturge Lou Cope.
The RnD was supported by Arts Council England, Sadler’s Wells Theatre and Laban Theatre.
