Ex Nihilo are four dancers from Marseille. They create choreographies in situ, developing specific projects in connection with a structure, public place or natural space. They improvise but are perfectly coordinated.
‘Calle Obrapia #4- a narrow street, pavements, walls of the houses: a space to discover, a venue to take over. Three women and two men [...]
Friday 30th July
Ex Nihilo - Calle Obrapia #4 (side street)30/07/2010
Bad Taste Cru - Concilium Plebis30/07/2010
Bad Taste Cru, the UK’s premiere Breakdance Cru, present ‘Councilium Plebis’ (Council of the Ordinary). This thought provoking piece looks at how people interact due to their personal choices and societies conformist attitudes.
The piece is centred on a homeless person who as an ‘eye’ on the street will interact with very different people throughout his [...]
Akademi - Sufi:Zen30/07/2010
‘Sufi:Zen’ is an intimate dance theatre experience that unites the stillness of Zen meditation with the rapturous motion of Sufi dervishes. Evoking a cultural landscape that extends from Persia to Japan, it exists in a world of contrasts – of ice and fire, entropy and energy, introspection and divine omniscience.
Sufi:Zen merges multiple dance styles, including [...]
Bad Taste Cru - Concilium Plebis30/07/2010
Bad Taste Cru, the UK’s premiere Breakdance Cru, present ‘Councilium Plebis’ (Council of the Ordinary). This thought provoking piece looks at how people interact due to their personal choices and societies conformist attitudes.
The piece is centred on a homeless person who as an ‘eye’ on the street will interact with very different people throughout his [...]
Polish Dance Theatre - Battle between Carnival & Lent30/07/2010
The Polish Dance Theatre was established in 1973 in Poznan by the initiative of local artists. ‘Battle between Carnival & Lent’ is a choreographic-musical installation about the human condition and its many contradictions. It is about freedom and imprisonment, truth and delusion, beauty and ugliness and happiness and suffering. Though modern in its choreography, music [...]
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Fuel - Electric Hotel ®30/07/2010
Fuel presents ‘Electric Hotel’, a lonely, bizarre and beautiful outdoor spectacle; a uniquely designed, fly-by-night hotel brought to vivid life through dance and sound. Sitting on the outside looking in, the audience snatch glimpses of the do-not-disturb lives unfolding behind the floor to ceiling windows.
Wearing headphones to eavesdrop on the internal spaces of the building, [...]
Saturday 31st July
StopGAP - Tracking31/07/2010
StopGAP is an integrated professional contemporary dance company which has dancers with and without disabilities. StopGAP Dance Company presents ‘Tracking’, a vibrant and funky explosion of dance.
It is a relentless race through the City of London, observing our British eccentricity, sense of invention and support for the beloved underdog. Never fear StopGAP are here and [...]
Ex Nihilo - Assemblements31/07/2010
Ex Nihilo are four dancers from Marseille. They create choreographies in situ, developing specific projects in connection with a structure, public place or natural space. They improvise but are perfectly coordinated.
‘Calle Obrapia #4- a narrow street, pavements, walls of the houses: a space to discover, a venue to take over. Three women and two men [...]
Bad Taste Cru - Concilium Plebis31/07/2010
Bad Taste Cru, the UK’s premiere Breakdance Cru, present ‘Councilium Plebis’ (Council of the Ordinary). This thought provoking piece looks at how people interact due to their personal choices and societies conformist attitudes.
The piece is centred on a homeless person who as an ‘eye’ on the street will interact with very different people throughout his [...]
StopGAP - Tracking31/07/2010
StopGAP is an integrated professional contemporary dance company which has dancers with and without disabilities. StopGAP Dance Company presents ‘Tracking’, a vibrant and funky explosion of dance.
It is a relentless race through the City of London, observing our British eccentricity, sense of invention and support for the beloved underdog. Never fear StopGAP are here and [...]