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Five contemporary dance artists bring their work to the unique and magnificent architecture of Christ Church Spitalfields. Each work is choreographed to inhabit a distinct space in the church, finding a new resonance with both architecture and audience, as viewers are invited to encounter work in the intimate crypt, through the majestic nave, to the aerial heights of the upper galleries. Reflecting a traditional pattern of prayer at morning, noon and dusk, repeated performances address questions of body, mind, time and use of space. Behind my back, Katye Coe - A study of self in motion, towards settling and towards flight. Score for 30 Dancers, Joe Moran - An ensemble of 30 of the UK’s finest dance artists perform a carefully ‘scored’ improvisational dance. A collision of improvisational and compositional intelligence, Score for 30 Dancers celebrates the intangible articulacy of physical performance and London’s vibrant role in international dance improvisation. NB This work will only be performed during the 7.30pm programme and is not part of the morning and midday programmes. Plainsong, Nikki Tomlinson and Hannah Marshall - A score for improvisation, drawing on the simplicity of plainchant, Goya’s Water Carrier painting and an abstract painting by Juan Uslé, performed by Nikki Tomlinson and cellist Hannah Marshall. Duplicated Other, Duets for Objects - Florence Peake and Sally Dean. - A film and object installation extracted from a residency at the post war junk museum Elsewhere in North Carolina. In collaboration with a family of ‘ghosts’ inhabiting the third floor of the museum, this work translates traces of the immaterial through flesh, viscerality of site and the embodiment of objects.

Creatives/Company

Choreographer(s): Katye Coe (Behind my Back), Joe Moran (Score for 30 Dancers), Nikki Tomlinosn (Plainsong), Hannah Marshall (Plainsong), Florence Peake (Duplicated Other Duets for Objects), Sally Dean (Duplicated Other Duets for Objects)