Clear Tears / Troubled Waters at Al Madina Theatre

As part of the Beirut International Platform of Dance (BIPOD) 2013, Al Madina Theatre will be hosting performances of the dance show “Clear Tears / Troubled Waters” by the Thor Company.

Taking inspiration from today’s melancholy atmosphere, Thierry Smits gives us a paradoxically formal creation. Anticipation of regret for what is disappearing is the filter applied to the dance – the precise, well-controlled steps without a hint of pathos communicate an aura of uneasiness, suffocation and having nowhere to go, as well as attempts to ward off this feeling and hope for new breathing room.

|Clear Tears / Troubled Waters” unfolds in a moving set whose components play a part, with a musical creation, performed by musicians on stage as it accompanies or leads the dance. The atmosphere is dark, but it embodies the energy to pierce and transcend nostalgia.