The prae-archaic body and senses live on in contemporary humans - just there on the other side of the cell wall in the primordial slime - like living pockets of memories from the time before homo erectus, awaiting a password.

"A deeply fascinating dance performance about the birth of life."
Jyllands-Posten, Denmark.

Rankefod registers as number two on the list of X-act performances which focus on Body, Anatomy and Choreography. Whereas number one, Aortas Partitur (2003), with its first general excavation of the body, dealt widely with all of the emerging energies, qualities and images, Rankefod will concentrate specifically on uncovering the body’s evolutionary memory, beyond its physical reality.


In the spring of 2009, Rankefod was nominated for the Canadian performing arts prize, the DORA, in the category 'Best dance performance of the season'.

Length of performance: 55 minutes.

Rankefod; Danish for Cirripede - one of the Cirripedia, a degenerate class of Crustacea, the barnacles and acorn-shells. Also cirripede. From Latin, cirrus, a curl, pes, pedis, foot.