RANKEFOD - PRESSEN SKREV

Tidløs, og på nogen måde end ikke menneskelig. Der er øjeblikke af sand skønhed - så enkel, som da bølgende hænder dukker frem fra kroppens skiftende abstrakte former...Hvor abstrakt Rankefod end forekommer er den dybt bevægende. Johnson har skabt et fængslende værk, hvis egentlige kraft ligger bagved det umiddelbart imponerende ydre.
Michael Seaver, Irish Times, 1. Juni 2008.

En sjælden danseforestilling - jeg har aldrig set noget lignende.
Beate L. Samuelsen, Heimatidindi, Færøerne, 7. september 2007.

Der er en intens intellektuel dimension til hendes bevægelses studier af menneksets opståen fra urslimet, en proces som hun kortlægger gennem minutiøse muskelbevægelser og en gradvis forlængelse af legemer...
Mary Brennan, The Herald, England., 14. August 2007.

In her solo, Johnson transgressed beyond the notion of ugly or beautiful, male or female. She achieved a state of pure living existence. Sture Ericson ... developed the soundscape from computer-manipulated nature and animal sounds, and Mogens Kjempff created the ideal light design, so essential for this outstanding performance.
Anne-Marie Elmby, Efterår 2005, Dance International, Canada.

”Et magisk dansedyr der hele tiden tryllebinder blikket”
Vibeke Wern, Berlingske Tidende, 19. april 2005.

”Den særligste unika i dansk dans ... Inde fra skallen bruser eksistensen i tidsløse gobleskvulp i Sture Ericsons betagende elektroakustiske komposition. Og med Mogens Kjempffs præcise gryne-lys af tidsaldre og stilstand på Charlotte Østergaards henførende tekstil-bagtæppe skabes et tidstomt univers ... mennesker der bliver til dyr, skabninger der bliver til tanker. Det sker lige for øjnene af én, men alligevel er man i tvivl om, hvad man egentlig ser. Universel er Rankefod og på højeste niveau. Og så ekstremt eksklusiv, fordi sansningen af Kitt Johnsons nøgne hud og aparte muskeltoning er altafgørende for oplevelsen af dansen ... Mærkeligt som hun får én til at tænke sig om, denne insisterende originale skabning ...
Anne Middelboe Christensen, Information, 18. april 2005.

”En dybt fascinerende danseforestilling om livets tilblivelse ... vildt fascinerende er det at iagttage, som er man vidne til fødslen af en ny eksistens ... insisterende repetitioner tvinger os til at focusere på selve bevægelsen og kroppen, ikke på mennesket bag ... en intens og forunderlig oplevelse ...
Henrik Lyding, Jyllandsposten, 15. april 2005.

”En fascinerende ener i dansk dans ... hendes krop, et præcist stemt instrument. Hun spiller det på samme tid meditativt og voldsomt, og det er denne taktile, kødlige oplevelse hendes dans aflejrer i publikum. Det giver genlyd i os alle...
Janus Kodal, Politiken, 15. april '05.

In her solo, Johnson transgressed beyond the notion of ugly or beautiful, male or female. She achieved a state of pure living existence. Sture Ericson ... developed the soundscape from computer-manipulated nature and animal sounds, and Mogens Kjempff created the ideal light design, so essential for this outstanding performance. Anne-Marie Elmby, Fall ’05, Dance International, Canada.

A rare danceperformance - I’ve never seen anything like it.
Beate L. Samuelsen, 7th of September 2007, Heimatidindi, The Faereo Islands

There is an intense intellectual dimension to her movement study of humankind’s emergence from the primordial slime, a process she charts in minute muscular twitches and graduately extending limbs - an astounding choreography you feel Davis Attenborourgh should be voicing-over. Mary Brennan, 14th of August 2007 The Herald, UK

Timeless and in some ways not even human. There are moments of real beauty - as simple as undulating hands - emerging from the abstractly shifting shapes of her body... However much it appears abstract, Rankefod is touchingly resonant... Johnson made a compelling case through a work whose real power lies beneath its impressively immediate exterior.
Michael Seaver, 1st of May 2008, Irish Times

Johnson pulls the show off with such a level of skill that it’s impossible for you to take your eyes off her for full 55 minutes... Acting like a piece of human origami, she folds herself into all sorts of strange positions, resembling a vast array of long since extinct creatures that you have never heard of, but somehow recognize... The piece registers on such an instinctive level. With incredible skill, precision, and even occasional moments of humour, Johnson achieves something younger choreographers often strive for but rarely accomplish. Absolutely mesmerizing. Catch it while you can!
Chris Dupuis, 17th of October 2008, Time and Space, Canada

Prehistoric and non-human, soloist is spellbinding (3½ out of 4 stars)
It’s not very often that a choreographer creates something that is unlike something you’ve ever seen before – from start to finish… There is a strange, haunting beauty to Rankefod, the first must-see performance of the dance season.
Susan Walker, 17th of October 2008, Toronto Star, Canada

An exquisite solo…..a mesmerizing exploration of insect and animal imagery to an electronic soundtrack, a masterful evocation of a world that is in flux, forming and becoming. Paula Citron, 18th of October 2008, The Globe and Mail, Canada

Kitt Johnson creates images by means of her exceptional body control without other props than sound and light. It is anatomical magic and unique performing arts. Torben Kastrup, 30th of April 2009, Danstidningen, Sweden

...streamlined, balanced, evocative - you know you are in the presence of a master."
Naomi Steinberg, 19th of March 2010, Plankmagazine, Canada

Strong yet vulnerable, the character she projects is almost atavistically pure and immediate. Something draws us to her. Maybe it’s the aura of primitive mystery……perhaps it’s the notion of a shared quest. Rankefod is, at heart, about evolution on an almost cellular level.
Donald Hutera, April 2010, Dance Europe

 

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