‘Starving Dingoes’ is choreographed by Léa Tirabasso and it is the 3rd time that I have worked with her (The Ephemeral Life of an Octopus & TOYS).

The creation started during the global pandemic in January 2021 and had further R&D stages, (in person and online rehearsals) in London and France.

A 6 week residency took place at La Chapelle in Annonay, France from September to November culminating in a preview performance at Théâtre des Cordeliers, Annonay.

‘Starving Dingoes’ premiered at Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg on the 8/12/21.

Such was the power of madness, announcing man’s senseless secret- that the lowest point of his fall is also his first morning.

Michael Foucault

‘Starving Dingoes’ portrays the urgency to live, furiously and passionately. It is a race for five dancers who, through the body ad its language, explore the vital necessity, albeit brutal, to stay together. Facing us, a cohort of grandiose and obsessive beings, primitive and bestial like the music that supports them.

The piece explores our potential reactions to the dysfunctional element of the group; to repair it or sacrifice it in order to save the whole.

It plunges into the dreamworld of childhood; that of regained freedom, poetry, brutality and violence. It is the observation of the smallness or the depth of humanity without artifice, with a smirk, to forget time and quench our hunger for life.

Because death, you know, is just around the corner.

Léa Tirabasso

Header footage: ‘Starving Dingoes’ teaser trailer by Camilla Greenwell