Linda Hayford: Abimes
After making a strong impression last year with AlShe/Me, a duet performed with her brother, Linda Hayford returns with Abîmes, her first group creation. With Abîmes, she dives into an immersive fiction inhabited by hybrid beings, exploring bodily languages in which singularities come together to reveal the complexity of today’s world.
festival Summerdance Forever
duration 50 minutes
genre Dance
Language no problem
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Linda Hayford: Abimes
Known as a leading figure in Popping, Linda brings her distinctive choreographic voice to the stage. In Abîmes, seven performers inhabit a parallel universe, moving as a single, interdependent organism. Through “Shifting Pop,” Hayford’s movement language, they explore transformation as a shared way of moving and existing, between control and fluidity, everyday gestures and more otherworldly physical states. The result is a continuous flow of shifting bodies, evoking slow motion and imagery drawn from science fiction, fantasy, and video games.
-|-Working at the intersection of styles and influences, from Popping and funk-based club dances to battle culture, Linda uses this crossover as a starting point. She connects multiple emotional and physical states, centering her work around transformation. Abîmes explores the shifting point between forms and energies, where bodies are in constant flux and identity is never fixed.
About Summer Dance Forever
Summer Dance Forever is one of the world’s leading international hip-hop dance festivals. Every August, dancers and audiences from around the globe gather in Amsterdam to enjoy explosive battles, soulful club nights, powerful dance performances, workshops by top dancers, and much more.
This summer, the festival runs from 25 till 31 August at Paradiso, ITA and various other locations. Check summerdanceforever.com for the full program and tickets.
Credits
DISTRIBUTION
Choreography: Linda Hayford
Interpretation: Andrège Bidiamambu, Cintia Golitin, Vera Gorbatcheva, Antuf Hassani aka Jikay, Linda Hayford, Anaïs Mauri aka Silent, Aline Lopes
Artistic collaborator Pop N STRKTR’: Mike Hayford
Lights design: Xavier Lescat
Light technician: Benjamin Bouin
Set design: Xavier Lescat, Linda Hayford
Music design: Mackenzy Bergile
Arrangements and sound engineer: Damien Ory
Dramaturgy: Gilles Amalvi
Costumes: Florence Messé
Assisted by: Mickaël Lecoq
Stage technician: Max Potiron
Technician support: Joël L’Hopitalier
Head of production: Céline Gallet
Tour manager: Marion Roger
Production coordinators: Jahlys Denis, Seynabou Diaw
-|-PRODUCTION
Creation by Cie INsideOut
Production: Collectif FAIR-E / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne
Coproduction: CND Centre national de la danse, Théâtre National de Bretagne, Charleroi danse - centre chorégraphique de Wallonie (Bruxelles), Fonds Transfabrik - fonds franco-allemand pour le spectacle vivant, Maison de la danse, Lyon - Pôle européen de création, Kampnagel (Hamburg)
