“…it somehow manages to conjure an expansive, abyssal universe, ripe with narrative subtext.” Limelight Magazine
A powerful and intricate piece, Rule of Thirds is a highly physical performance that celebrates perseverance, audacity and the ongoing desire to reinvent ourselves. The dancers test and alter a strong force field they have set up amongst each other, gradually deconstructing and dismantling the movement score. All players are needed, but who is eventually in charge? Rule of Thirds promises, and delivers, guts, virtuosity and focused abandon.
Rule of Thirds is the third part in the Embodiment series, initiated by Anouk van Dijk in 2013, a trilogy of interventions between dancers, a movement score and a chosen site. The movement score is malleable and deliberately deconstructed, dismantled and stretched on each new site, affecting the performance, the meaning and the intensity of the work. After the vastness of Depth of Field (2015) and the dramatic architecture of 1:1:1 (2013), Rule of Thirds moves into the illusion and intimacy of the theatre space.
