Sometimes I have to lean in… (2018)

Created in collaboration with Gerard Bester and commissioned by the Dance Umbrella. The work is a playful but poignant meditation on human closeness and proximity, where the act of leaning is explored as a metaphor for our complex relationships with our memories of ourselves and of each other.

Created and performed by Gerard Bester and Alan Parker

Scenography by Gavin Krastin

Performances:

March 2018: Dance Umbrella; Wits Amphitheatre; Johannesburg

September 2018: ICA Live Art Festival; Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, University of Cape Town; Cape Town

June 2024: National Arts Festival (Curated Programme); Box Theatre, Rhodes University, Makhanda