"Every now and then a performance comes along that stands out for its originality and integrity; the choreographic and musical material formed into TRACKS by Lorea Burge and Hannah Parsons of Unbaptised Infants, is one."
- Nicholas Minns, Writing About Dance. Full review here.
Unbaptised Infants is a collaboration between dance artists Lorea Burge and Hannah Parsons.
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Inspired by folk culture, they combine movement, singing and punk poetry through highly constructed methods and radical play. As a result, Unbaptised Infants create work that is nonconformist, experimental and fun. So rhythmically and harmoniously satisfying when it is done right, the tentative risk of failure draws audiences and performers closer together, encountering each other’s liveness.
Currently resident artists at La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain) and MACBA (Barcelona, Spain)
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Unbaptised Infants has previously been supported by Dantzan Bilaka, ADDE, Sortutakoak 18, TripSpace, The Place, Dance 4, Yorkshire Dance, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Attenborough Arts Centre, TRY and 4bid Gallery.
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Text by Eva Klein, audience member of Part 1&2, writer.
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Through the subversion of linguistic space, Unbaptised Infants manage to reclaim it. This is no small feat. To address the daily restrictions of life as creatives; life as women; life in a capitalist society, with simultaneously such intellectual vigour and open accessibility, enables these two women to engage and to challenge a diverse audience. The juxtaposition between order/disorder; nonsense/sense; dissociation/intimacy that is present in their work allows both performers and observers alike to enter the liminal space between the two and, as a result, to open up the possibility of an untethering from restrictive social bonds. In the Kristevan tradition, they release conventional ties between words and their meanings, returning to the female body as site for this subversion. Boundaries between sound, movement and image resist definition, allowing true freedom of both physical and verbal expression as they weave through space and soundscape.