Cusp is a dance theatre and aerial duet devised by Kate Wilson in collaboration with performers Robin Roche and Isolde Brolchain Carmody.
The duet reflects on our experiences of body and mobility during transitional periods in our lives.
Addressing the paradox of hypervisibility for women both at the cusp of adulthood and the cusp of menopause, it explores our methods for resisting society’s constructed images of young and older women, and of able and disabled bodies.
Living in separate worlds, two women’s lives are intertwined, an entanglement across realities. Through experiences that bring them both ‘out of body’, each falls through a crack emerging into a realm between earth and sky, between reality and imagination. Here they must recognise their intrinsic interconnection, as it becomes clear that every action creates a reaction and every desire requires the support of the other.
In an Escher like world of impossible staircases, looming buildings and endless tunnels they learn to navigate together.
Project research in 2023 & 2024 has been supported by Ballina Arts Centre, Galway Dance Project and Arts Council bursary and agility awards. The project includes sound by Aoife Hammond, lighting design by Michael Cummins and projections by Milo Cummins.
