Sudermann and Söderberg’s A
Talk as part of Dance Umbrella
2012 Festival
Friday 11th of October 2012
Now, if not a
custom to boundary-breaking performance, A Talk could quite simply be as
the title suggests. Even to such extent that it might be difficult for its
audience not to question the belonging of such content in the program of
London’s biggest annual festival for dance. Yet, it takes no time for Sudermann
and Söderberg to justify their artistry…one of the many reasons A Talk is
at the top of my list of must sees.
This dynamic female duo is already seated and
mid-flow into their rhythmic, clicky, clappy display as the audience enter and
take their seats. The two casually dressed, almost juxtaposing characters
observe us as intently as we do them, and still manage to be unfazed nor undone
by our waiting for their abstract interaction to be accidentally, or even
momentarily broken.
What has been constructed here is nothing
less than a spectacular vocal, and gestural demonstration of our desires to
communicate for no reason other than to enter into the game, which is
conversation. The duo, accompanied by none other than the passive pot plant,
have devised a subtle overlapping between communicational sentimentality and
juvenile matter of fact, to which the outcome is simplicity, complexity and
precision all at once.
Along with
fashionable wit, Sudermann and Söderberg have consistency conquered, for every
element of this conversational affair seems to fall back in again, somewhere,
and somehow new.
With humour, satisfaction and point blunt
accuracy-what’s not to like?
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