ADAMANTIUM
Adamantium is about immortality. Dancers test themselves against mental and physical limitations, simultaneously revealing their strength and vulnerability. Why do we strive for invincibility, and at what cost?
In this striking first collaboration between Matthew Romantini and Ronya Lake the dancers cycle rapidly through rich and complex imagery, reaching beyond the boundaries of culture and context to speak of universal human struggle. The individual journeys of this man and woman, in their attempt to live beyond their finite mortal bodies becomes a metaphor for a race of humans who are increasingly having to address a deeply flawed and failing system.
The thread of hope is found in the resilience of the human spirit, in its ability to show compassion and love even in the face of its own destruction.
