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Archived Events/ Autumn 2017

Christopher Brett Bailey

Christopher Brett Bailey credit nathan hoste

Kissing The Shotgun Goodnight

THU 21 SEP 2017 | 7.30pm | Full £10 Conc £6 |AGE 16 plus

Clouds of haze and crumbling walls of transcendent noise, KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT is a neo-noir fever dream and 120 decibel suicide note. A juggernaut of music-theatre. Three musicians, piano corpses and the sci-fi poetry of a disembodied voice. A nocturnal meditation crooned into the swollen abyss. Soothing drones and crushing metal, swamps of feedback and pools of reverb, clattering rhythms and throbbing bass. A return to the womb for those who wish they could crawl back inside mother to hide.

Supported by Arts Council England. Originally commissioned by Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Cambridge Junction, Ovalhouse, Theatre in the Mill, and Theatr Iolo. With thanks to Hackney Showroom.

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‘a hallucinatory journey of dark intensity…a total, immersive sensory experience…a burning-up roar’

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‘a thumping industrial noise-scape, a sensory onslaught…’

www.christopherbrettbailey.com

Image Credit – Nathan Hoste
Archived Events/ Autumn 2017

Tavaziva

Izindava-3-Tony-Hay

Izindava

THU 28 SEP 2017 | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm | AGE 12 plus

Izindava is dynamic, bold and breath-taking to watch.

Bawren Tavaziva’s new work explores human fragility within our changing world.
Beautiful yet haunting and provocative, Izindava unearths raw emotions that are unsettling and unforgettable.

Bawren’s unbridled and intricate movement synthesises ballet, contemporary and African dance styles and is performed by a cast of stunning dancers with a film-scape of street life in Harare.

Izindava translates as ‘news’ in the Zimbabwean language Shona.

The dancers are DYNAMITE
The Guardian, Africarmen

Tavaziva’s facility for devising hot, liquid motion is indisputable… His seven strong cast is sharp, swift and superbly fit
The Times, Africarmen

www.tavazivadance.com

Image credit – Tony Hay
Archived Events/ Autumn 2017

Tribe

Tribe Dance Image Credit – Harry Cauty

Still I Rise

THU 5 OCT 2017 | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm | AGE 14 +

tribe dance by harry cautyFormer Cando and Jasmin Vardimon Company dancer Victoria Fox Marciewkz previews her new work Still I Rise. Raw and energetic dance combined with instinctual physicality inspired by the powerful and defiant words of Maya Angelou’s poem of the same name.
Five daring female dancers begin a journey of simmering unison, restless duets and tender solos all performed with a gut-wrenching power. Pounding rhythms drive the movement and create an intense stark world where hope dies last. Falling down, gathering up…we rise.

visceral and fearless, this is uncommonly intelligent work
Kate Larsen

packed with both physical invention and emotional intensity
Sanjay Roy

Supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts

www.tribecompany.co.uk

Image Credit – Harry Cauty
Archived Events/ Autumn 2017

Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor

Two Room Apartment photo-gadi-dagon

Two Room Apartment

THU 12 OCT | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm | AGE 15 plus

Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor by gadi dagonTwo Room Apartment brings Sheinfeld & Laor to the stage for a duet that reflects on their relationship as partners in life and as creators. Both personal and political, the work examines boundaries in various contexts: physical borders such as between territories or between two rooms, but also non-physical borders, such as the one between life and performance, and the boundaries that the individual sets for himself. The work uses a simple dance language and a minimalist aesthetic, and explores the notion of life as a framework in which a precise, almost compulsive repetition of customs and behaviours takes place.

The work suggests a re-imagining of the original performance created by Liat Dror and Nir Ben Gal that premiered in 1987 in Tel-Aviv. It is considered a milestone in the development of independent Israeli choreography.

Everything is open, accessible. Niv and Oren imbued the work with their intimate relationship and emotions, and the result is fascinating.
Ora Brafman, Dance Talk

Image Credit – Gadi Dagon