After a reflective lockdown, MJ Harper is returning to the stage with a confrontational new dance performance.
, the past 12 months have been an opportunity to reflect. The Jamaican-born, Berlin-based artist has held a number of titles throughout the years: dancer, choreographer, collaborator, cast member, student, movement director, and model. Harper has commanded stages first with the Alvin Ailey II company in New York, and later Wayne McGregor’s company in London. But in Harper’s latest work, we are invited to join the artist not just as audience members, but as equals.
“In dance school, one of the things you learn is how to be humbled. When you’re injured, you can’t perform. Instead, you spend that time reshaping your relationship to your body as you give it the time and space to heal. You listen to your body, and when it tells you to return, you’re stronger than before. Over the last year, I had to unlearn how to be flexible in my work to learn how to be rigid. Then, I learned to be flexible from the start once more.
“It’s been a challenge as an artist when it comes to building a world. Dance is obviously very physical, but I’m not necessarily interested in the physicality, but rather the characters instead.
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