TRIPLE BILL 1
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CLAIRE CUNNIGHAM & JOSE AGUDO
4M2
This 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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TOM DALE
Cabin Fever
Lost in a world of their own, a character's cabin fever and mental loops produce an exhilarating and hypnotic performance. This startlingly expressive piece of physical work becomes a metaphor for a contemporary state of mind.
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DOUGLAS THORPE
a mind as beautiful
The piece
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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TRIPLE BILL 2
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DARREN ELLIS
Sticks and Bones
The piece 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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LAÏLA DIALLO
Between the Shingle and the Dune
With Between the Shingle and the Dune, Canadian born and Bristol based choreographer Laïla Diallo evokes physical narratives of togetherness, shifting landscapes of distance and nearness.
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MICKAEL MARSO RIVIERE
Appel
This trio is based on the live interaction between two dancers and a musician playing Bansuri (flute) and tabla and inspired in equal parts by b-boyin’, capoeira and contemporary dance.
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TRIPLE BILL 3
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TANJA RÅMAN + DBINI INDUSTRIES
(re)traces
Featuring the distinct movement aesthetics of Tanja Råman, stunning photography by John Collingswood and hypnotic electronic soundscape by Jon Ruddick, (re)traces create constantly-evolving maps from traces of the dancing body, exploring the world of memories.
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BEN WRIGHT/bgroup
Passing strange and wonderful
This
is an intense physical conversation for two, framed by a rectangle of fluttering light. Evoking a sense of something partially remembered, the piece explores the insatiable and unattainable desire to break through the shell of another.
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FREDDIE OPOKU-ADDAIE
/JAGGED ANTICS
Silence Speaks Volumes
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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Each triple bill is accompanied by A Blank Canvas, a foyer installation by Heather Eddington’s State of Flux dancefilm company, blending dance, film and animation into a dancefilm installation. The dancers vividly recount their individual journeys and personal stories; nostalgically humorous and at times strikingly truthful but always intriguingly beautiful.» Read more
The programme varies on some dates and venues:
Guildford, 10 March: DOUGLAS THORPE, DARREN ELLIS, MICKAEL MARSO RIVIERE
Cambridge, 13 March: TOM DALE, DOUGLAS THORPE
Hambleton, 19 March: CLAIRE CUNNIGHAM & JOSE AGUDO, TOM DALE, FREDDIE OPOKU-ADDAIE
Leeds, 24 April:
TANJA RÅMAN,TOM DALE, FREDDIE OPOKU-ADDAIE
