A rider taming a wild horse is the metaphor Courtney May Robertson uses as a starting point for her short solo. She looks at the struggle between embracing one’s desires, and regulating behaviour in accordance with societal pressures. Visual projections encapsulate Robertson within an octagon spanning 3.5m in diameter. Through a combination of poetry, dance, and song, she travels across landscapes of personal desires, memories, and conflicts. The space acts like a time capsule; intimate home videos are spliced with samples from YouTube, documentaries and old films. the pleasure of stepping off a horse when it’s moving at full speed is Courtney May Robertson’s attempt to embrace the, sometimes messy, contradictions that make up a multifaceted human.
the pleasure of stepping off a horse (…) in Umeå
Umeå, Sweden Book nowCourtney May Robertson is presenting her solo ‘the pleasure of stepping off a horse when it’s moving at full speed’ at Norrlandsoperan, in Umeå (Sweden), as part of Dansnat Sverige on 10 October 2023.