A Room for All Our Tomorrows
There are two people in this dance performance, but it is not just about them. It is about all of us. It is about the secret lives we all possess when we are close to others. It is about those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all we have left is the desire to scream. It is a performance and place to imagine how things might be other than the way they are. It is a simple room for all our tomorrows.
A Room For All Our Tomorrows was selected for the biennial British Dance Edition 2016.
- Produced by: Igor and Moreno & The Place
- Created and performed by: Igor Urzelai and Moreno Solinas
- Developed with: Aoife McAtamney
- Dramaturge: Simon Ellis
- Set and Costume Design: KASPERSOPHIE
- Lighting Design: Seth Rook Williams
- Jacket Tailoring: Markowski Atelier: Marek Markowski and Sarah Poffa
- Voice Coach: Melanie Pappenheim
- Sound advisor: Alberto Ruiz Soler
- Project Manager: Sarah Maguire
- Producer: Christina Elliot
- Production Manager: Ian Moore
- Photographer: Alicia Clarke
- Video Documentation: Stacie Lee Bennett
- Commissioned by The Place (London) and Cambridge Junction, created using funding from the Arts Council England with support from Centro Per La Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa), TIR Danza, Dance Base (Edinburgh), Chelsea Theatre and Roehampton University
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Simple, charming, unaffected, and above all, genuinely original. Unpretentious, minimal yet lush and therefore all the more extreme, here the unexpected managed to make everything else previously seen in oh so serious ‘modern’ dance look dull. Quite a result, if you ask me.
Igor and Moreno teeter on the edge of cruelty but their very human sense of delicious, nail-biting humour rather than setting them apart actually puts them in a class of their own.
Really funny, beautifully finished, and just the right length. In my experience only duds labour the point.
(Phil Preece, Seeing Dance)
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‘By the time fifty-five minutes are up, the audience have been on a deceptively finely-crafted emotional journey, from absurdity and surrealism to sculptural beauty and harmony and love. […] Igor and Moreno may initially seem like they are playing with idiocy and absurdity, but this is a work of considerable subtlety and intelligence with a strong emotional heart. Perfect at a time when our tomorrows have rarely seemed less certain.’
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(Peter Jacobs, The Reviews Hub)
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‘It seemed like it would be difficult for Igor and Moreno to top their incredible Idiotsyncrasy, in which they jumped non-stop for an hour. Instead A Room for All Our Tomorrows managed to stretch even further than the previous show in its balance of humour and melancholy and exasperation at the absurdity of the world. […] Along with the performances, the design was perfectly pitched, from their tailored suits to the gently shifting lighting to a table that managed to be a little bit magical. And among all the genuinely, delightfully surprising moments in the show was a moment of singing so original, yet at the same time so meaningful, it seemed amazing I had never seen it used before.’
(Lilith Wozniak, Exeunt Magazine)
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‘A Room For All Our Tomorrows by Igor & Moreno [is] one of those pieces that remain in your consciousness and senses to survive, resonate and reflect for a long time.
What a way to explore with the whole body, including the masterful use of the voice as an instrument of the body and its movement. What a way to approach the other and the public appealing to the senses (the smell of coffee, the sound of its spilling from the table to the floor).
What a way to explore human and couple relationships through the symbol of coffee: the encounter, the disagreement, the passive violence, the silences, the containment, the threats that we generate towards the other, and that the other generates towards us, the compassionate love and the sensual and passionate love. Igor & Moreno with their proposal of movement, voice and senses place on stage an “amplifier” to how our souls, psyches – or whatever you may call them – would be heard if we could hear them: screams, groans, babbles, songs, harmonies, disharmonies, silences. Playful, touching, thoughtful.’
(María Antonieta Mendívil, Portazo-Billboard of Dance and Theater)
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‘The depth and range of emotions that this singular piece provokes within me is astounding.’
(Jake Orr)
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‘A breathtaking performance that investigates interpersonal relationships with incredible precision and that extends the canons of how we traditionally define dance‘.
(Andrea Cioschi, La Falla Del Cassero)
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‘Sent everyone home infused with a greater degree of humorous compassion for their own relationships. It was a pure, unadulterated delight’
(Joy Martin, EXEUNT MAGAZINE)
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‘it was BRILLIANT. And VISCERAL. […] You know the best thing about ‘visceral’? IT DOESN’T HAVE TO MEAN ANYTHING. You just feel it.’
(Megan Vaughan)
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‘The tension between the two dancers was extraordinary and overwhelmingly human. […] Every aspect of this performance was executed to perfection. I can’t wait to see what these two produce next.’
(Dulcie Fraser)