'A touching, symmetrical narrative with innovative and dynamic choreography, that goes beyond the 'normal' perceptions of dance.'
Everything Theatre
'real, spiritual and earthy'
DanceGround
'The use of repetitive movements or series of movements was like it’s own complex and secret language – making the piece even more intriguing, causing you to wish you knew what words the dancers were saying to themselves or thinking with every gesture.'
Julie Cameron
'In each of her performers, Burn brings out individual strengths to match: Pearce turns herself inside out in her solo, arriving at a oneness with her material that is timeless and it is lovely once again to watch Bridle whose ability to transcend form is ever present; she is like water to Pearce’s earth. As for Burn herself, when not joining in the trios she seems quite at home as the statuesque, white-robed goddess with the delicately supplicating arms.'
Nicholas Minns
Everything Theatre
'real, spiritual and earthy'
DanceGround
'The use of repetitive movements or series of movements was like it’s own complex and secret language – making the piece even more intriguing, causing you to wish you knew what words the dancers were saying to themselves or thinking with every gesture.'
Julie Cameron
'In each of her performers, Burn brings out individual strengths to match: Pearce turns herself inside out in her solo, arriving at a oneness with her material that is timeless and it is lovely once again to watch Bridle whose ability to transcend form is ever present; she is like water to Pearce’s earth. As for Burn herself, when not joining in the trios she seems quite at home as the statuesque, white-robed goddess with the delicately supplicating arms.'
Nicholas Minns
Inspired by Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and the experience of crossing from familiarity to freshness, three women find newness in small detail within a black and white world; they move through scenes as through pockets of the poem, sharing energy, togetherness, quiet and solitude; spending time and thought on the threshold between ‘this’ world and ‘that’.
Urge and urge and urge,
always the procreant urge of the world…
…I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content…
…I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars…
Walt Whitman
Created by Rachel Burn
Performed by Lauren Bridle, Laura Erwin and Anna Pearce, Anna-Lise Marie Hearn
Music created by Renu Hossain.
Performed at:
Emerge 13, The Space, London E14 3RS
Resolution 2014, The Place, London, WC1H 9PY
UK Young Artists Festival, PACE DMU, Leicester LE2 7BQ
Rich Mix, as part of a double bill with Ieva Kuniskis' Women's Tales.
Read about the process of making Threshold from the inside perspective of dancer Laura Erwin here
Kindly supported by The Place, UK Young Artists, and Rich Mix