SWANS

A pair of dancers inhabit the pavilion to disrupt familiar narratives and embody the light and dark symbolism of swans

Celebrated performers Deanne Butterworth and Jo Lloyd move inside the pavilion’s elegant greys, and alongside its still waters, in a new dance work that channels the eternal, contrasting symbol of the dark and light swan.

The performance is the latest in their long-running series of duets and marks their return to MPavilion after their two-hour work in 2018 ‘All Our Dreams Came True’. It continues their project of testing the reciprocal ways two bodies tend to inhabit new space—moving, being watched, coming together and breaking apart. Their swanlike duality will manifest individually, and as a fused duet—as each dancer disappears into the other. Camouflaging two within one. Tadao Ando’s use of light and shadow will be fully harnessed as the work moves inside then outside the structure—introducing each new space with Deanne and Jo’s collaborative grace and signature physicality.