Necessary Games: Necessity

A dynamic collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and screen media company Closer Productions, NECESSARY GAMES is a triptych of dance works made specifically for the screen. The young members of Restless ensemble, who predominantly have an intellectual disability, worked with the Closer Productions team to develop these polished films. With three different takes on intimacy and connection and three explorations of the games we play, NECESSARY GAMES delivers honest, idiosyncratic movement and documents compelling interactions. The triptych forms a complete work, or each film is available separately. Part 3: NECESSITY: A game between two girls eternally bound together. They trace their lives onto the walls of their room and try to get below the surface. Two people in a domestic space reveal the depths and limitations of their relationship through a seemingly perpetual game of gesture, movement, drawing, and confession. The sun shifts through foliage outside the window as surfaces of bodies and the physical space are mapped and manipulated in a desperate effort to find the depths of what is shared. They play with each other’s bodies, moving them, drawing on their skin and the walls, pulling and grappling each other in frustration, need, and tenderness. WITH: Tuula Roppola (Co-Director & Choreographer). Created in collaboration with and featuring performers Kyra Kimpton & Dana Nance.