DOLO by Rosalind Masson and Moss Beynon Juckes
DOLO (an excerpt): 60 min a dance – voice – ritual on cruel optimism
by and with Moss Beynon Juckes and Rosalind Masson
Dolo is a dance duet exploring a trickster system of cruel optimism that allures us into the false promise of a fairytale life. Moss and Rosalind use their sonic and movement performative language to confront the resonances and dissonances of biological female bodies as instruments; enablers, and resistors of patriarchal systems. Through queer nature theory, mythologising and parodying personal journeys as mothers, lovers and friends, the performers wrestle layers of identity to re-value the female body by revealing its biological complexity beyond gender. DOLO is a visceral choreographic ritual to dismantle the illusionally and outdated structures we attach to which ultimately impede our happiness. In this performance Rosalind and Moss will share a 45 minute excerpt of the full length performance.
In Late Latin, dolus ‘deceit’ expanded its semantic scope and took on the meanings of dolor ‘pain, suffering, grief, anguish’. Dolo is a word from Spanish law that means someone is being dishonest or tricky on purpose. Rolo-noun- the part of a typewriter which moves back and forwards, carrying the paper or a length of something wound into a loop or loops or curler [noun] an object round which hair is rolled to make it curl, fastened in the hair.
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. ― Lauren Berlant
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