Oona Doherty Hope Hunt & Ascension into Lazarus

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Bold Tendencies presents *Life starts at 40*, a comprehensive programme of work by this award-winning choreographer in her 40th birthday year, celebrating a decade of her groundbreaking practice and including the World Premiere of a full-length new commission *Leather Jacket*. Deploying dance as powerful socio-political commentary and engagement, **Oona Doherty**’s tough, uncompromising work challenges and reframes the dance world, her distinctive, visceral creations driven by her desire to craft and share experiences. To open the programme Oona Doherty returns to the stage to perform her iconic solo work *Hope Hunt*. Moving between physical theatre and social commentary, thick with fury, swagger and humanity, *Hope Hunt* distils the working-class male with chameleonic physicality, grace and technical precision. Hope Hunt shatters facades, dismantles stereotypes and finds beauty on the margins. For the transcendent, bright white, Caravaggesque finale *Ascension into Lazarus*, dancers from the postgraduate performance programme at **Trinity Laban**, where the choreographer is currently Honorary Fellow, join her to perform on stage in the hunt for hope.