Rupture

The Unknown Theater proudly presents, Rupture choreographed and directed by Kingsley Irons as the first performance of the 2009 Dance Series. Iron’s visceral
storytelling draws us into a mysterious female ritual space. In this fragile and brutal
world with secretive shadowy figures, paper dolls, and women in birdcages, she
questions our perceptions of tradition, history, power, and unity. She interweaves intricate
movement, text, and visual art with a haunting original musical score composed by
Derrick Spiva Jr. Rupture is influenced by Michel Foucault’s treatise, Discipline and
Punish, the reconstructed choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, the visual art of Kara Walker, and Lars von Trier’s films Dogville and Manderlay.