What’s she gonna look like with a chimney on her… If you wanna be my lover… Stop right now, thank you very much… It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone… Hey, the Macarena! What’s your feel-good throwback song? The song that reminds you of the good times? Write it on a piece of paper, […]
Writings
Company Here and Now: Perhaps Hope
August 9th, 2016 by Dorothy Max Prior‘Good evening this is your captain speaking. Get ready for a crash landing. We’re going down’. Perhaps Hope is a circus show with a difference: a dark and moody circus-theatre exploration of a dystopian future. Or perhaps it’s the present. Two people – a kind of end-of-civilisation Adam and Eve – are marooned somewhere, who […]
The Hiccup Project : May-We-Go-Round?
August 9th, 2016 by Rebecca JS NiceFriday evening at Dance Base, and a jolly audience laugh out loud as performers Chess Dillon-Reams and Cristina MacKerron, reveal their innermost thoughts and conversations, drawing us into their friendship through a mixture of charisma and sheer will. The cyclical narrative of May-We-Go-Round? gives the audience an insight into their dating sagas complete with emotional […]
Marta Navaridas and Alex Deutinger: Your Majesties
August 9th, 2016 by Rebecca JS NiceYour Majesties throws into a cool blue light Barack Obama’s Nobel Lecture held at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo in 2009. The work maintains a cool minimalist ambience which allows audiences to consider and interrogate the text. A complex choreography of everyday gestures that flow between the surprising and the mundane illustrate, unpack, […]
Janis Claxton Dance: POP-UP (fragments of love)
August 9th, 2016 by Marilia EnnesBoth love and dance can pop up unexpectedly from different places at various times. Sometimes just a look, or perhaps a piece of music, can bring them out into the open, either separately or together. Both can be infectious. It’s not uncommon, when we see a couple kissing, to feel the same desire. It’s the […]
