DAD & SON

In the dance performance Dad & Son, Samuel Draper and Frédéric Gies expose and celebrate an unorthodox form of kinship rather than a normative, biological relationship, while dancing together in an almost pitch dark room to the beats of techno music. If the title of the performance can be interpreted as a wink to a gay form of sexual relationship, it exceeds this specific association, as it actually refers to another form of relationship the two dancers have agreed upon and live in the frame of their created surrogate family. The performance neither represents nor comments on the nature of this relationship, but rather makes visible unutterable bounds.

Creation: 2016
Premiere: December 11, 2016 * Stockholm, Sweden

Dance: Frédéric Gies & Samuel Draper
Music: Fiedel
Co-produced by Weld / With the support of Kulturrådet

Premiered at Weld (Stockholm) on December 11, 2016, in the frame of Dance is ancient - context. Presented at Festival My Wild Flag (Stockholm).