Robin Knightly

DOUBLE BEAT : A MYSTICAL JOURNEY OF THE HEART

 

Express the human heart. Begin at the beginning. Start with conception in the uterus. Add the ten thousand things that impact the human heart invitro. As well, all that, day-to-day, month-to-month, touches the mother’s heart carrying the foetus. And all that affects the developing child’s heart. Let’s not forget the multifarious ways that the foetus changes the mother. And how mother and baby mutually drive the birth experiences of each other. Next, incorporate how life unfolds the growing baby’s heart. Finally, include the myriad ways that the developing person’s heart unfolds life.

Result? DOUBLE BEAT. A metaphor for the journey of the human heart expressed through dance.

Vibrantly conceived. Vivaciously performed. Vividly staged.

Climaxing in three dancers – as a trinity of body, mind and heart – embodying an exquisitely intimate integration.

DOUBLE BEAT  was choreographed and directed by Sara Black.

Danced by Isabel Estrella, Samantha Hines, Sophia Ndaba.

Sound composed by Alyx Dennison.

Lights designed by Veronique Bennett.

Costumes designed by Aleisa Jelbart.

Production/stage manager Kaylee Ashton.

Production mentored by Narelle Benlamin.

A Form Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres production.

Production photography  by Heidrun Lohr



Published by Robin Knightly

Robin Knightly is the nom de plume of a writer whose mother was born in eastern Ukraine, and father in western Ukraine. Both parents survived the Ukrainian genocide orchestrated by the regime in Moscow. The 1932-1933 famine was executed by confiscating the wheat harvests, a seizure that took the lives of six million Ukrainian children, women and men. The writer’s grandfather was humiliated in one of the 1930’s show trials, dragged off and murdered. Both parents escaped to Australia as refugees on forged papers. The writer was born here.