Instinct

2000

6:45

Dancers – 2

Music – Written by Clint Mansel, performed by Kronos Quartet

Lighting – Tabitha Rodman

Costumes – Jon Lehrer

“ Instinct has a clay-like feel, as if Lehrer shapes his war paint-covered dancers into mounds of conjoined earth awaiting an unknown enemy.”

- Chicago Tribune

“Lehrer’s affinity for air-born antics doesn’t keep him from making stunning use of the floor and stationary movement in the duet Instinct. Animal energy seethes as the two predatory beings move from mutual dependence through the pain of emerging independence, to the breach that finally separates them. The power and dramatic tension of their bodies connecting and separating casts the space between them as a third partner.”

- Dance Magazine

“Full of primal fear and evolutionary tensions, the work was a true gymnastic thriller.”

- Chicago SunTimes