The artists (photo Hugo Glendinning)
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One dancer, one musician and one artist join forces in this beautifully crafted and powerful performance. The three performers create constantly evolving maps from traces of the dancing body, exploring the world of memories - the traces of human experience.
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Originally created in 2007 for bgroup’s launch programme: The Diminishing Present for founding company performers Robert Clarke and Delphine Gaborit, passing strange and wonderful is an intense physical conversation for two characters framed by a rectangle of fluttering light.
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Freddie's breakthrough, award-winning Silence Speaks Volumes weaves a rich, multicultural movement vocabulary with powerful partnering and expansive gestures to create a dance that is elegant, evocative and explosive.
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4m2 is the first collaboration between choreographers/dancers Claire Cunningham and Jose Agudo, with composer Scanner.  The performance was created as artists in residence at Déda, UK in summer 2008.
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A startlingly expressive piece of physical work based on a latent need to "let go", the building up of potential energy and its release. Cabin Fever is a voyeuristic look at how we operate creatively within our confined mental, physical and social realities.
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a mind as beautiful explores the experience of those who suffer with schizophrenia and of those who love them and care for them. Sometimes brutal, sometimes achingly tender, it is a startling physical portrait of the erratic, irrational mind in a domestic setting made terrible with frustration and loss..
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Sticks and Bones came out of The Place’s unique international research and development project Choreoroam. A solo for Darren and his drumsticks, this is an exploration of practice and the quest for perfection. 
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Canadian born, Bristol based choreographer Laïla Diallo first came to prominence as a dancer with Wayne McGregor's Random Dance before attracting attention with her own choreographic work.
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French choreographer Mickael Marso Riviere is well known as a hip hop artist, and formed Company Decalage in 2004. As an independent choreographer he is notably eclectic, working with artists from The Bolshoi Ballet to hip hop crews.
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Directed by Heather Eddington, State of Flux is a vibrant dancefilm company dedicated to creating fresh and adventurous work by fusing dance, film, animation and design.
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