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Hypertopia Hypertopia - Photo Antoinette Mooy - 03
Hypertopia – a word created from the intersection of two existing words: utopia, the dream of a perfect world and society; and hyperopia, a technical term for the defect of vision that is commonly called near - or short - sightedness, or narrowing of the visual field. Combined, they form a question or series of questions: Does the dream of a perfect society lead to a feeling that the end justifies the means, thereby leading to a kind of selective blindness to what is actually happening around us? Hypertopia premiered at 9 March 2006 in Korzo theatre in The Hague and toured throughout The Netherlands and abroad until May 2006. The production was selected for the Dutch Dance Festival, a platform for leading performances of the preceding season, and in addition was nominated for the ‘Zwaan’ best dance production by the VSCD dance jury: "In Hypertopia, André Gingras makes a forceful statement. It grabs the audience by the throat and confronts it with a mirror image: what is your position in a world where violence has become commonplace, and what is more; violence that also thanks to the media has become part of the entertainment industry? Gingras succeeds in translating relevant social themes and convincingly placing them in a choreography with an unmistakable energy." |