Hunted
2015
Hunted is an incantatory project, a chant in which Okwui Okpokwasili wields words, lyrics, singing and bodies to the music of Kalevi Aho. Invoking witch figures such as Medea, the Macbeth witches, Mary Wigman, Valeska Gert, Tatsumi Hijikata, Hunted offers a hybrid of storytelling and “neo-paganistic” ritual. Okpokwasili embodies a vocabulary drawing from folklore and political language – a presence straddling reality and superstition.
conception, choreography and text by Maud LePladec and Okwui Okpokwasili
cerformed by Okwui Okpokwasili (with Dorothée Munyaneza in London)
music by Kalevi Aho
lighting by Nicolas Marc
voice training by Dalila Khatir
costume design by Alexandra Bertaut
live musicians: Jean-Etienne Sotty, Fanny Vicens
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Centre Choréographique d’Orléans, 2015
Sadler’s Wells, London, November 15-16, 2017