Everything Now is a rollercoaster ride danced by an all-male, ethnically diverse cast of renowned dancers – Kevin Coquelard (France/Ireland), Maurice Ivy (USA), Sebastiao Mpembele Kamalandua (Ireland/Angola) and Ryan O’Neill (Ireland). The dancers thrust us into a dynamic and vital physical exploration of how we respond to media and whether individuals can safeguard who they are when identity shifts, is reshaped, and shifts again in a time when nationhood is transformable, languages meld, and the news is incessant.
Everything Now combines the formality and rigour of highly disciplined dance with elements of a 1960s happening to explore the pervasive, potentially damaging influences of Western society, of being consumed and consuming, while recognising that joy is still to be found.
The piece is accompanied by powerful new music composed by Brian Hogan, bass player and co-writer/arranger with Kila, and leader of Preacher’s Son; and the support of a laughing/shouting/silent multicultural chorus.
