Oona Doherty
Navy Blue (adaptation)
To conclude the Kunstmeile parcours: NAVY BLUE, Doherty’s reflection on dance, crisis, and collective healing at Kunstverein.
Past dates
8/16/25
6:00 PM
NAVY BLUE (Summer Festival 2022) is both a personal reflection on dance and on the state of our times, as well as a search for collective healing. Set to Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 – which he composed after overcoming severe depression and an artistic crisis – Oona Doherty creates an almost spiritual dimension in which the emotional power of the music meets the group’s dance and their fragility. Threaded through with existential dread, their attempt at freedom is accompanied by the galactic-dark sound of British musician and DJ Jamie xx, together with a text by Oona Doherty. In the upper exhibition hall of the Kunstverein, the entire work will be presented as the final station of the Kunstmeile parcours, performed by 9 dancers from the original cast.
