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Anthony Missen and Kevin Edward Turner formed Company Chameleon in 2007. After meeting in 1994 at Trafford Youth Dance Theatre, they trained together at Northern School of Contemporary Dance before working collectively and independently with companies including Scottish Dance Theatre, Mad Dogs Dance Theatre, Rui Horta, Rambert Dance Company, Phoenix Dance Theatr and Henri Oguike Dance Company. Running time: 42 minutes Rites is the first major work from Company Chameleon, making use of the personal and shared histories of Missen and Turner, whilst investigating those Rites of Passage shared by men in a more universal context. The work explores those events and experiences that shape us to become what we are, where we receive our formative information from, and the cyclical nature of those behavioral traits we are left with. The work moves chronologically, charting the passage from childhood, through adolescence into adulthood. A big question in this work is 'what does it mean to be a man?' and as such looks at themes such as coming of age, peer pressure, and the fragile balance of the internal psychological struggle against the external forces that steer us.