Daughter, Daughter - Before I met you
Joseph Toonga - just dance theatre

7 Oktober 2017

Daughter Daughter, is about a father with two dauthers and how the father is dealing with it. The father is trying to communicate with them but it is not working out the way he wanted it to work out. its having different ups and downs and it is not an happy end.



In this piece they used two different dicliplines, they spoke and danced in the piece. sometimes there are very quick changes between the two. the music was giving an extra layer to the same emotion as the movemnts or voices, in the beginning and in the end they used an recorded voice what was in the music aswell. the style of dance was hiphop and contemporary dance, in some of the movements where a lot of emotions and in others not, also because they had very fast changes in speaking and then suddenly moving.

When i was watching the performance the kept me focused most of the time, it was very in the face they wanted us to see them, its became also stronger because the y almost didn't used decor. instead they had some atributes.. Because the performance was in realy in the face it gave less space to think about the situations differenty then they showed them, also because they switched a lot in speaking and dancing. Joseph Toonga has done a good job in giving the audience his way that he want us to think,

This piece is inspired by real story's from fathers and their daughters, with the dept of responsebility, love, guilt and lack of control.