Adam Russell-Jones (DE/UK)
Release the Hounds

“The marathon goes on, and on, and on! HOW LONG CAN THEY LAST?” Sydney Pollack’s film They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, about the American dance marathons during the Great Depression was as much an inspiration for Adam Russell-Jones’s solo as Rainald Goetz’s iconic book Rave or British rave culture during the Thatcher years. Dance as an escape from the brutality of everyday life, dance as an expression of social belonging – or of individuality. Dance in times of crisis. Dance as a form of resistance. Of holding on. Or letting go. Accompanied by a phenomenally crafted sound collage by Moritz Haas, Russell-Jones dances and dances and keeps dancing, refusing to acknowledge that the rush is wearing off, and even as a spectator, one is tempted to fantasise an invisible crowd of dance maniacs surrounding him. But he is all alone. 

Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Guest Performance Funding Dance International, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.