Women’s Work is a joint dance and film project working with women employed in the US car industry in the cities of Flint and Detroit through the 60’s & 70’s.
This film was a collaboration between David Toop (score & libretto based on Leonardo da Vinci's accounts of his dreams), vocalist Elaine Mitchener and Barry Lewis. The film is without the transformative stage performance of Elaine’s extreme vocalisation and butoh dancing.
This film is a highly personal reverie on the physicality and craft of drumming by Roger Turner, as he beats, taps, scrapes and strokes the different surfaces and materials he explores.
Desert Crossings is a dance of discovery, building bridges between two continents, tracing shared memories and the earth's history, revealing timeless stories, universal hopes and dreams of a better world.
“Compelled To Approach” comes from a Noh play, Aoi no Ue, in which Princess Aoi is possessed. To cure her, a shaman beats a drum and plays a stringed instrument to compel the possessing spirit to appear.
The Arrival was a theatre-circus production integrated with film sequences developed with Tamasha & Circus Space and based on a Shaun Tan graphic novel.
In the second half a woman considers the nature of life and its history, as it moves ever closer to its end: like a sibyl, an oracle, a shaman, she voices the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci, is caught up within his memories, prophesies and visions.
Fragmentings of Things, originally provoked into being by Adam Buck’s 18th century Irish painting, Tambourina, is a collaborative work that questions the boundaries of tangibility and voids.
Light Steps is a dance performance for children choreographed by Adesola Akinleye, taking inspiration from artist Spencer Finch's exhibition at Turner Contemporary in 2014
Đẹp is the Vietnamese word for beautiful. Dam Van Huynh explores through dance influences from his South East Asian heritage on the theme of death and rebirth by looking at aspects on the human condition.