Iona Kewney
FauX paS
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performance: duration 30 mins; video documentation above – 31 mins.
main images above – photographers: Jouni Ihalainen, Andrea Maccia, Augustin Rebetez, Michal Hancovsky
Artist statement from the original Festival website:
My work is balanced between dance, madness and performance art; the mentality of taking things beyond the limits of exertion, testing human will and physical endurance, bordering on the compulsions of madness. Methods of movement drawn from the imagination of an obsessive compulsive driven state.
The detailed space in between is hungry with
imagery,
searchings,
power and fragility
controls and chaos.
Collected echoes of the mind, sound, thrust forth movement strategy in shapes. The music is a dark turbulent breeding force of undulating layers and loops in live creation.
Thoughts and disorder are patterned through
Hand-balancing and Contortion and Hysteria
in
line
in
wired
To make magic out of improvised movement and contents of the head.
To perform the inner out-state reshaping visions of thought in the physical.
For over 20 years Iona has been creating and performing her choreographies and art pieces. Her first full length solo was at St.Marks church New York in 1999 with music made with Barry 7 of Add N to (X). Since, her numerous works have been shown in 22 countries and hundreds of major theatres and festivals of Contemporary dance, new circus, theatre and performance art from Mexico City to Lapland.
‘Knights of the Invisible’ is her current company. It was initiated in 2009 together with musician Joseph Quimby and is performing and touring internationally.
Iona studied and trained at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, School for New Dance Development SNDO Amsterdam and Cirkuspiloterna (renamed DOCH Dance and circus University) Stockholm and is a Jeunes Talent du Cirque /Circus Next Laureate.
She has toured the world for years with Belgian Companies; Alain Platel / Les Ballets C de la B ‘VSPRS’ and Wim Vandekeybus / Utlima Vez ‘Scratching the Inner fields’.
Exhibitions of her large scale drawings and paintings are shown in galleries and she collaborates regularly with musicians, visual artists and film makers. These have included Gina Czarnecki, Augustin Rebetez, Racehorse Company, Yves de Mey, Rob Curry, Peter Verhelst, Martin Butler, Chris Watson, Oskar Wrango, Bruno Clement
Her solo work has aways been well received in Scotland, including performances at the National Review of Live Art, SCARglitter RETINA and at New Territories, TOUCH and CAPTURE and INFECTED – a digital hybrid film by Gina Czarnecki and Ox-Zoo MORPHIC, Spangles – a Tramway Dark Lights commission. She is now regularly performing internationally with her company Knights of the Invisible and her next work Waiting for the Sea Eagle, will premier in 2020.
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Artist statement from the original Festival website:
My work is balanced between dance, madness and performance art; the mentality of taking things beyond the limits of exertion, testing human will and physical endurance, bordering on the compulsions of madness. Methods of movement drawn from the imagination of an obsessive compulsive driven state.
The detailed space in between is hungry with
imagery,
searchings,
power and fragility – controls and chaos.
Collected echoes of the mind, sound, thrust forth movement strategy in shapes. The music is a dark turbulent breeding force of undulating layers and loops in live creation.
Thoughts and disorder are patterned through
Hand-balancing and Contortion and Hysteria
in line in wired
To make magic out of improvised movement and contents of the head. To perform the inner out-state reshaping visions of thought in the physical. I was initially trained in FINE ART: painter / printmaker. Then NEW Dance school of Improvisation in EUROPE. I have been performing solos for over 15 years with live musicians and/or objects/artworks and improvised texts of my own. I later still trained at Cirkus School in Sweden. COMPANIES: ALAIN PLATEL “VSPRS”, WIM VANDEKEYBUS “Scratching the Inner Fields”, Martin Butler “Tued” and “Haughty Cultural Implications of the 2nd Circle”, Mark Bruce”Horse”. Many, many SOLOS but includes GLASGOW, National Review of Live ART “SCARglitter RETINA” at New Territories, “TOUCH and CAPTURE tour “INFECTED” digital hybrid film by Gina Czarnecki. International NEW MOVES,”Ox-Zoo MORPHIC, SPYangles” a TRAMWAY DARK Lights commission. ionakewney.com