The Place Prize
Archive Listings for The Place Prize
The Final - including prize giving - T0297148959The finalists of The Place Prize are: Riccardo Buscarini & Antonio de la Fe Guedes Cameo, Ben Duke & Raquel Meseguer It Needs Horses, Eva Recacha Begin to Begin: a piece about dead ends, Frauke Requardt & Freddie Opoku-Addaie Fidelity Project. All four works will be performed each night during The Place Prize Finals, and the audience will vote for their favourite work, which wins a nightly prize of £1,000. After the final performance, the overall winner, as selected by a new panel of judges, will be announced, and presented with £25,000. | |
| 16 Apr 11 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L1476321632 |
The Finals - T201284706The finalists of The Place Prize are: Riccardo Buscarini & Antonio de la Fe Guedes Cameo, Ben Duke & Raquel Meseguer It Needs Horses, Eva Recacha Begin to Begin: a piece about dead ends, Frauke Requardt & Freddie Opoku-Addaie Fidelity Project. All four works will be performed each night during The Place Prize Finals, and the audience will vote for their favourite work, which wins a nightly prize of £1,000. After the final performance, the overall winner, as selected by a new panel of judges, will be announced, and presented with £25,000. | |
| 6 Apr 11 to 15 Apr 11 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L01015921787 |
Slaughter/Cameo (working title)/The Devil and the Details (working title)/Between Identities (working title) - T0856186496The Place Prize is the biggest single source of commissions for new short works in British dance. In the Semi-Finals you'll be able to vote on each of the four commissions performing each night. The piece with the highest average score goes through to the Finals. Slaughter - Slaughter is a cut-throat dance drama performed to Richard Rogers’ classic Slaughter on 10th Avenue. Set amidst the complex social and sexual politics of Manhattan, Slaughter follows the journeys of three contrasting characters, leading to their ultimate deaths at the hands of jealousy, drugs and the struggle for power. Cameo (working title) - Their work will challenge the conventional narrative relationship between framing, sound and non-verbal communication signs, as used in suspense films. The aim is to translate these cinematic features into a theatrical construction playing with the audience’s perceptions. The Devil and the Details (working title) - "I have been working on revealing my inner dictator for some time, in the hope that it may not manifest quite as much in my everyday life. This is a truth about myself... which I am laughing at." Between Identities (working title) - This solo performance will expose the alternative realities of our inner and outer worlds. Exploring notions of anonymity and loss of external identity while revealing an inner world of associations and imaginings, this will be a dark but quirky glimpse into distorted reality.Choreographer Drew McOnie (Drew McOnie (Slaughter0). Choreographer Riccardo Buscarini (Cameo). Choreographer Antonio de la Fe Guedes (Cameo). Choreographer Rachel Lopez de la Nieta (The Devil and the Details). Choreographer Deborah Light (Between Identities). | |
| 25 Sep 10 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L0968737317 |
Semi-final 3 - Crow in Eden/From the Waist Up/Three Sighs to Beauty/Begin to Begin - a piece about dead ends - T0346304731The Place Prize is the biggest single source of commissions for new short works in British dance. In the Semi-Finals you'll be able to vote on each of the four commissions performing each night. The piece with the highest average score goes through to the Finals. Crow in Eden - An epic journey into Eden, where ritual and constraint are everywhere, and the consequences for breaking the rules are great. A work based on Ted Hughes' anthology Crow in which dance and live music are welded together in a poetic nightmare. From the Waist Up - A solo piece performed by Darren based on the theme of censorship. He will be collaborating with writer Rick Bland and composer Russell Pay to create a work that explores freedom of speech and the freedom to move. Three Sighs to Beauty - Three Sighs to Beauty is a piece that explores and reveals intense feelings which cause us to sigh. How does a sigh out of sorrow and out of joy differ in emotional arousals and dynamic stimulation? How does breath alter our behaviour? Begin to Begin, a piece about dead ends - Begin to begin, a piece about dead ends takes the form of a nonsensical dirge. The work is a rhyme in motion, fuelled by playing the game of dying.Choreographer Conor Doyle (Crow in Eden). Choreographer Darren Ellis (From the Waist Up). Choreographer Vangelis Legakis (Three Sighs to Beauty). Choreographer Eva Recacha (Begin to Begin - a piece about dead ends). | |
| 23 Sep 10 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L1424492084 |
Semi Final 2 - Desire Lines (working title)/Aftermath (working title)/Lost Dog/Hinterview (working title) - T981137942The Place Prize is the biggest single source of commissions for new short works in British dance. In the Semi-Finals you'll be able to vote on each of the four commissions performing each night. The piece with the highest average score goes through to the Finals. Desire Lines - (working title) "Desire lines are the pathways that people create in order to make their lives more efficient. My commission, also called Desire Lines, uses literal and metaphorical pathways as a starting point for a reflection on the nature of desire and love." Aftermath - Based upon experiences of growing up in Omagh, Northern Ireland, Aftermath follows four characters struggling to exist in an area of conflict, and the effects terrorist acts can have upon these individuals. Lost Dog - Hard times at the human zoo. There is only one exhibit left open and the male and female occupants are resorting to extreme measures to draw the crowds. A piece about the nature of live entertainment. Hinterview - "The various parts follow each other like various stages of a voyage to the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a unique situation, the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance" (Milan Kundera).Choreographer Simon Ellis (Desire Lines). Choreographer Robert Graham (Aftermath). Choreographer Raquel Meseguer (Lost Dog). Choreographer Ben Duke (Lost Dog). Choreographer Henrietta Hale (Hinterview). | |
| 21 Sep 10 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L629832841 |
Semi Final 1 - T02086006365The Place Prize is the biggest single source of commissions for new short works in British dance. In the Semi-Finals you'll be able to vote on each of the four commissions performing each night. The piece with the highest average score goes through to the Finals. The Program - "The Program is inspired by the theatrical experiences I had in general life after the London bombings. Many of us had to adapt a form of ultra-normal behaviour; everybody and everything was suspicious, powerful and powerless, normal and abnormal." WW3 - Tension, conflict and euphoria are felt first in the body, organs and muscles, before being verbally communicated. What happens when we extract, physicalise and isolate the internal conflicts that continually envelop us? WW3 aims to exhibit the mental and physical discharges of conflict confrontation. From One Place to Another - In this experiment Freddie and Frauke become choreographers from the inside. After a good few years of directing from the outside based on visual information, the two will make choreographic decisions focusing on the sensory memory of their physical negotiation with each other. The Icarus Project - What is the relationship between sound and movement? How do they become associated in the mind? How can sound define a space or movement? What is the physicality of a sound? Listen. Observe. Fly. Let yourself be taken on a journey.Choreographer Saju Hari (The Program). Choreographer Dane Hurst (WW3). Choreographer Frauke Requardt (From One Place to Another). Choreographer Freddie Opoku-Addaie (From One Place to Another). Choreographer Vera Tussing (The Icarus Project). | |
| 18 Sep 10 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L477802346 |
Preview 4 - Slaughter/Cameo (working title)/The Devil and the Details/Between Identities (working title) - T1378051548Slaughter - Slaughter is a cut-throat dance drama performed to Richard Rogers’ classic Slaughter on 10th Avenue. Set amidst the complex social and sexual politics of Manhattan, Slaughter follows the journeys of three contrasting characters, leading to their ultimate deaths at the hands of jealousy, drugs and the struggle for power. Cameo - Their work will challenge the conventional narrative relationship between framing, sound and non-verbal communication signs, as used in suspense films. The aim is to translate these cinematic features into a theatrical construction playing with the audience’s perceptions. The Devil and the Details¦ - "I have been working on revealing my inner dictator for some time, in the hope that it may not manifest quite as much in my everyday life. This is a truth about myself... which I am laughing at." Between Identities - This solo performance will expose the alternative realities of our inner and outer worlds. Exploring notions of anonymity and loss of external identity while revealing an inner world of associations and imaginings, this will be a dark but quirky glimpse into distorted reality.Choreographer Drew McOnie (Slaugher). Choreographer Riccardo Buscarini (Cameo). Choreographer Antonio de la Fe Guedes (Cameo). Choreographer Rachel Lopez de la Nieta (The Devil and the Details). Choreographer Deborah Light (Between Identities). | |
| 16 Sep 10 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L872663335 |
Preview 3 - Crow in Eden/From the Waist Up/Three Sighs to Beauty/Begin to Begin - a piece about dead ends - T0855905135The Place Prize is the biggest single source of commissions for new short works in British dance. Over the course of four previews you'll see the first performances of all 16 commissioned artists. Crow in Eden - An epic journey into Eden, where ritual and constraint are everywhere, and the consequences for breaking the rules are great. A work based on Ted Hughes' anthology Crow in which dance and live music are welded together in a poetic nightmare. From the waist up - A solo piece performed by Darren based on the theme of censorship. He will be collaborating with writer Rick Bland and composer Russell Pay to create a work that explores freedom of speech and the freedom to move. Three Sighs to Beauty - Three Sighs to Beauty is a piece that explores and reveals intense feelings which cause us to sigh. How does a sigh out of sorrow and out of joy differ in emotional arousals and dynamic stimulation? How does breath alter our behaviour? Begin to begin, a piece about dead ends - Begin to begin, a piece about dead ends takes the form of a nonsensical dirge. The work is a rhyme in motion, fuelled by playing the game of dying.Choreographer Conor Doyle (Crow in Eden). Choreographer Darren Ellis (From the Waist Up). Choreographer Vangelis Legakis (Three Sighs to Beauty). Choreographer Eva Recacha (Begin to Begin - a piece about dead ends). | |
| 14 Sep 10 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L847087824 |
Preview 2 - Desire Lines (working title)/Aftermath (working title)/Lost Dog/Hinterview (working title) - T0325889454The Place Prize is the biggest single source of commissions for new short works in British dance. Over the course of four previews you'll see the first performances of all 16 commissioned artists. Desire Lines (working title) - "Desire lines are the pathways that people create in order to make their lives more efficient. My commission, also called Desire Lines, uses literal and metaphorical pathways as a starting point for a reflection on the nature of desire and love." Aftermath (working title) - Based upon experiences of growing up in Omagh, Northern Ireland, Aftermath follows four characters struggling to exist in an area of conflict, and the effects terrorist acts can have upon these individuals. Lost Dog (working title) - Hard times at the human zoo. There is only one exhibit left open and the male and female occupants are resorting to extreme measures to draw the crowds. A piece about the nature of live entertainment. Hinterview (working title) - "The various parts follow each other like various stages of a voyage to the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a unique situation, the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance" (Milan Kundera).Choreographer Simon Ellis (Desire Lines). Choreographer Robert Graham (Aftermath). Choreographer Raquel Meseguer (Lost Dog). Choreographer Ben Duke (Lost Dog). Choreographer Henrietta Hale (Hinterview). | |
| 11 Sep 10 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L1869625141 |
Preview 1 - The Programme/WW3/From One Place to Another/The Icarus Project - T579348335The Place Prize is the biggest single source of commissions for new short works in British dance. Over the course of four previews you'll see the first performances of all 16 commissioned artists. The Program - "The Program is inspired by the theatrical experiences I had in general life after the London bombings. Many of us had to adapt a form of ultra-normal behaviour; everybody and everything was suspicious, powerful and powerless, normal and abnormal." WW3 - Tension, conflict and euphoria are felt first in the body, organs and muscles, before being verbally communicated. What happens when we extract, physicalise and isolate the internal conflicts that continually envelop us? WW3 aims to exhibit the mental and physical discharges of conflict confrontation. From One Place to Another - In this experiment Freddie and Frauke become choreographers from the inside. After a good few years of directing from the outside based on visual information, the two will make choreographic decisions focusing on the sensory memory of their physical negotiation with each other. The Icarus Project - What is the relationship between sound and movement? How do they become associated in the mind? How can sound define a space or movement? What is the physicality of a sound? Listen. Observe. Fly. Let yourself be taken on a journey.Choreographer Saju Hari (The Programme). Choreographer Dane Hurst (WW3). Choreographer Frauke Requardt (From One Place to Another). Choreographer Freddie Opoku-Addaie (From One Place to Another). Choreographer Vera Tussing (The Icarus Project). | |
| 9 Sep 10 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L496674790 |
Lap Dancer/Gertrud/Foie Gras/Clearing/Collision - T0726218625[Aletta Collins] has created a solo entitled Lap Dancer for dancer [Rachel Krische], which is a dialogue between Rachel and her laptop. The piece features music by [Peter Morris] and [Mieko Shimizu] at Street Furniture. [Simon Ellis] presents Gertrud, an imagined conversation between choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser (who died in 1959) and Simon, a solo performer. The piece challenges today's culture of forgetting by bringing a personality from the past, voiced by [Shona Dunlop-MacTavish], who danced with Bodenwieser in the 1930s and 40s, to vivid life. To read Simon's blogs about his process and progress on Gertrud, click here. [Adam Linder]'s Foie Gras is based around the circumstances fueling the current climate of mass material and entertainment consumption, where the connection between one’s self and society is increasingly tenuous. Adam performs with [Lorena Randi]. In [Anna Williams]'s Clearing, two women meet in a place to dance a duet. They pull, stab, grasp, push, flail and catch. And one of them keeps disappearing. This duet is made with and danced by [Petra Soor] and [Hannah Shepherd], and with lighting design by [Sarah Gilmartin]. [Dam Van Huynh]'s Collision is a piece for three dancers with choreography that examines the complexity of the torso by dividing and clearly defining the independent movement capability. It is performed by [Van Huynh] and his fellow Phoenix Dance Theatre dancers [Franklyn Lee] and [David Mack].Choreographer Aletta Collins (Lap Dancer). Performer Rachel Krische (Lap Dancer). Music Peter Morris (Lap Dancer). Music Mieko Shimizu (Lap Dancer). Choreographer Simon Ellis (Gertrud). Performer Shona Dunlop-MarcTavish (Gertrud - voice). Choreographer Adam Linder (Foie Gras). Performer Lorena Randi (Foie Gras). Choreographer Anna Williams (Clearing). Performer Petra Soor (Clearing). Performer Hannah Shepherd (Clearing). Lighting Sarah Gilmartin (Clearing). Choreographer Dam Van Huynh (Collision). Performer Franklyn Lee (Collision). Performer David Mack (Collision). | |
| 17 Sep 08 to 27 Sep 08 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L25626422 |
2008 Finals - T0206173624The twenty commissions will have been whittled down to a final five, one of whom has been chosen by you in the audience vote. Each night of the finals you'll also have the opportunity to vote for your favourite work, with 1,000 awarded nightly. The winner of The Place Prize 2008 will be announced following the last performance on Saturday 27 September with the selected choreographer receiving £25,000.Corporate Sponsor Bloomberg. | |
| 17 Sep 08 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L01948692797 |
Semi-Final 4 - Charlotte Eatock and Rachael Mossom/Jelka Milic/Mickael Marso Riviere/Jose Luis Vidal/Ben Wright - T1874939853[Charlotte Eatock] & [Rachael Mossom Inspired by the similarities and differences in people, chance happenings and spontaneous love, Charlotte and Rachael are working together to create a series of vignettes that combine real stories from everyday people with caricatures and tall tales. Their piece features five professional performers with sections of film and voice by non-performers, set to music created in collaboration with [Diana de Cabarrus]. [Jelka Milic]'s piece will look at the struggle of the fusible body through reality. A group of six female dancers undergo a variety of physical transformations and performative modes, as Jelka looks at the body as a socially, culturally and physically inscribed entity. [Mickael Marso Riviere]'s piece for five dancers, Breaking Point, is inspired by the effect of music on people in hip hop culture and how this translates in the media and in everyday lives. He defines the breaking point as the moment at which you lose yourself to intuition and impulse. From the critical moment of personal stress, to the b-boy throw down, to the break in the music, Breaking Point is an instinctive human response to emotion, music, religion and life. [Jose Luis Vidal] 's work is heavily influenced by cinematic process. His ideas come from the way films are created and the way language is used. [Ben Wright] 's commission is part solo, part short film and part video diary - the crescendo from a blank stage to a fully staged number.Corporate Sponsor Bloomberg. | |
| 13 Sep 08 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L784226940 |
Semi-Final 3 - Dam Van Hunyh/Philine Janssens/Darren Johnston/Kyoung-Shin Kim/Bettina Strickler - T207120158[Dam Van Hunyh]'s trio focuses on the male torso. "The inspiration for the work is based on observations of everyday people and their daily activity. I am inspired by the way every individual approaches an event or a problem with their own unique physical interpretation. As no two people open a door, smoke a cigarette or walk their dog in the same way, I’m aiming to observe and comment on how the body moves to accommodate every situation." [Philine Janssens] is aiming to make, "a compilation of the emotional, the real and the absurd. I want the audiences to feel physically involved with what happens on stage. The timing and structure of the piece will play with your expectations, anticipation, surprise and suspense. My inspiration comes from film directors such as Kubrick, Wong Kar-Wai, Jeunet and Caro, literature by Sarah Kane, Suskin and Sartre, as well as from contemporary choreographers like Wim Vandekeybus, Jan Fabre and Keegan Dolan." [Darren Johnston] presents a hypnotic solo of ensemble proportions. 'When the mind is disturbed, the multiplicity of things is produced, but when the mind is quieted the multiplicity of things disappears' (Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics). A collision of sound, video and live performance, this is a journey into the subconscious. A solo performer is joined by multiple simulations of himself, culminating in a strange ensemble performance by the real and the virtual. The purpose of [Kyoung-Shin Kim]'s Oblivion is to express extreme images of life and death. Shin's starting point was the nature of pain, and how it can overwhelm us in the present yet seem like nothing when we think back to that moment as time goes by. His work for four dancers is inspired by the question of where happiness and tragedy begin and end. [Bettina Strickler]'s work examines random but significant moments in the life of a fictitious woman - Nora Torrington. The piece looks at the nature of memory and questions what we will remember at the end of our lives? Big, earth shattering events? Births, deaths, divorce? Or the small details: smells, glances, gestures, someone’s laughter, someone’s touch? There will be four performers on stage - one dancer [Elisabetta D’Aloia], one opera singer/dancer [Claudio Girar], one actress [Irene Hardy] and composer [Simon Redfern].Corporate Sponsor Bloomberg. | |
| 12 Sep 08 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L1444514481 |
Semi-Final 2 - Temitope Ajose-Cutting/Victoria Fox/Adam Linder/Colin Poole/Anna Williams - T01679581813[Temitope Ajose-Cutting]'s Whispers unlocks the secrets of four characters' pasts, present and futures. [FM Flash] will create an original, raw edged score, blurring the boundaries between the musicians and performers. The piece will look at how these four individuals see themselves and deal with their festering secrets when they are alone and in relationships. [Victoria Fox]'s Human Shadows (working title) is a high powered, visceral and intense piece of dance theatre, exploring our instincts for survival, power, dependency and personal fears. Unresolved encounters take place between two couples and a shadow, whose lives are entangled and interconnected. The piece features performers [Welly O'Brien], [Jason Keenan-Smith], [Aneta Szydlak], [Marek Zawalski] and Victoria herself. [Adam Linder]'s The Boredom Killing Business is based around the circumstances fueling the current climate of material, information and entertainment overload. The work observes the demise of sensuality within personal interactions as a result of the immediacy of over consumption and a desperation for self gratification. He is inspired by the artists including Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Anger and Kate Bush. Amor Fati (working title) will be a solo danced by [Colin Poole] exploring the Nietzchean theme of fate. The piece will be an artistic collaboration of light provided by collaborator [Chahine Yavyoran], set, speech and sound. [Anna Williams] is interested in the ordinary and the extraordinary, the epic and the intimate. All are all present in this duet about a woman who dances and a man who does not, very loosely based on the myth of Orfeo and Euridyce. It will be performed by Anna and [Mark Whitelaw] (The Glee Club, Ducky).Corporate Sponsor Bloomberg. | |
| 11 Sep 08 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L01083866126 |
Semi-Final 1 - Aletta Collins/Ribin Dingeman/Simon Ellis/Saiko Kino/Chisago Minamimura - T0500537052[Aletta Collins] is creating a solo (title tbc) for dancer [Rachel Krische], which will be a dialogue between Rachel and her laptop. The piece features music by [Peter Morris] and [Mieko Shimizu] at Street Furniture. [Robin Dingemans]' Going on Infinity is a duet featuring [Joanne Fong] and [Delphine Gaborit] that will use dance, light, text and sound in a 15 minute sensorial kidnapping. Robin has described the piece as, "not merely a hedonistic intoxification of the senses, but an engaging heightening of them." [Simon Ellis] presents Gertrud, an imagined conversation between choreographer [Gertrud Bodenwieser] (who died in 1959) and Simon, a solo performer. The piece challenges today's 'culture of forgetting' by bringing a personality from the past, voiced in Austrian and English by two women who danced with Bodenwieser in the 1930s and 40s, to vivid life. To read Simon's blogs about his process and progress on Gertrud, click here . For quite some time [Saiko Kino] has been thinking about how choreographers can expand an audience's imagination and heighten our senses. A collaboration with [Shizuka Hariu] (set), [Jackie Shemesh] (lighting) and dancer [Takashi Ueno], Saiko's piece will be about the dual effects of light and darkness - part fantasy and part sacred, like a Japanese ghost story (a kaidan). [Chisato Minamimura]'s Canon for Duet is a duet with music and film created by [Akira Baba] and Chisato herself. The piece will be unique in directly addressing her deafness, posing the question what is visual sound/music? She is interested in how this visual music is created, and will look at the importance of the body - the dancers’ faces and hands, as well as their movements.Corporate Sponsor Bloomberg. | |
| 10 Sep 08 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L01642271089 |
Preview 4 - Charlotte Eatock and Rachael Mossom/Jelka Milic/Mickael Marso Riviere/Jose Luis Vidal/Ben Wright - T0176386631[Charlotte Eatock] & [Rachael Mossom] Inspired by the similarities and differences in people, chance happenings and spontaneous love, Charlotte and Rachael are working together to create a series of vignettes that combine real stories from everyday people with caricatures and tall tales. Their piece features five professional performers with sections of film and voice by non-performers, set to music created in collaboration with [Diana de Cabarrus]. [Jelka Milic]'s piece will look at the struggle of the fusible body through reality. A group of six female dancers undergo a variety of physical transformations and performative modes, as Jelka looks at the body as a socially, culturally and physically inscribed entity. [Mickael Marso Riviere]'s piece for five dancers, Breaking Point, is inspired by the effect of music on people in hip hop culture and how this translates in the media and in everyday lives. He defines the breaking point as the moment at which you lose yourself to intuition and impulse. From the critical moment of personal stress, to the b-boy throw down, to the break in the music, Breaking Point is an instinctive human response to emotion, music, religion and life. [Jose Luis Vidal] 's work is heavily influenced by cinematic process. His ideas come from the way films are created and the way language is used. [Ben Wright] 's commission is part solo, part short film and part video diary - the crescendo from a blank stage to a fully staged number.Corporate Sponsor Bloomberg. | |
| 8 Sep 08 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L01088663656 |
Preview 3 - Dam Van Hunyh/Philine Janssens/Darren Johnston/Kyoung-Shin Kim/Bettina Strickler - T01640329766[Dam Van Hunyh]'s trio focuses on the male torso. "The inspiration for the work is based on observations of everyday people and their daily activity. I am inspired by the way every individual approaches an event or a problem with their own unique physical interpretation. As no two people open a door, smoke a cigarette or walk their dog in the same way, I’m aiming to observe and comment on how the body moves to accommodate every situation." [Philine Janssens] is aiming to make, "a compilation of the emotional, the real and the absurd. I want the audiences to feel physically involved with what happens on stage. The timing and structure of the piece will play with your expectations, anticipation, surprise and suspense. My inspiration comes from film directors such as Kubrick, Wong Kar-Wai, Jeunet and Caro, literature by Sarah Kane, Suskin and Sartre, as well as from contemporary choreographers like Wim Vandekeybus, Jan Fabre and Keegan Dolan." [Darren Johnston] presents a hypnotic solo of ensemble proportions. 'When the mind is disturbed, the multiplicity of things is produced, but when the mind is quieted the multiplicity of things disappears' (Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics). A collision of sound, video and live performance, this is a journey into the subconscious. A solo performer is joined by multiple simulations of himself, culminating in a strange ensemble performance by the real and the virtual. The purpose of [Kyoung-Shin Kim]'s Oblivion is to express extreme images of life and death. Shin's starting point was the nature of pain, and how it can overwhelm us in the present yet seem like nothing when we think back to that moment as time goes by. His work for four dancers is inspired by the question of where happiness and tragedy begin and end. [Bettina Strickler]'s work examines random but significant moments in the life of a fictitious woman - Nora Torrington. The piece looks at the nature of memory and questions what we will remember at the end of our lives? Big, earth shattering events? Births, deaths, divorce? Or the small details: smells, glances, gestures, someone’s laughter, someone’s touch? There will be four performers on stage - one dancer [Elisabetta D’Aloia], one opera singer/dancer [Claudio Girar], one actress [Irene Hardy] and composer [Simon Redfern].Corporate Sponsor Bloomberg. | |
| 6 Sep 08 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L685497821 |
Preview 2 - Temitipe Ajose-Cutting/Victoria Fox/Adam Linder/Colin Poole/Anna Williams - T1021622231[Temitope Ajose-Cutting]'s Whispers unlocks the secrets of four characters' pasts, present and futures. FM Flash will create an original, raw edged score, blurring the boundaries between the musicians and performers. The piece will look at how these four individuals see themselves and deal with their festering secrets when they are alone and in relationships. [Victoria Fox]'s Human Shadows (working title) is a high powered, visceral and intense piece of dance theatre, exploring our instincts for survival, power, dependency and personal fears. Unresolved encounters take place between two couples and a shadow, whose lives are entangled and interconnected. The piece features performers [Welly O'Brien], [Jason Keenan-Smith], [Aneta Szydlak], [Marek Zawalski] and Victoria herself. [Adam Linder]'s The Boredom Killing Business is based around the circumstances fueling the current climate of material, information and entertainment overload. The work observes the demise of sensuality within personal interactions as a result of the immediacy of over consumption and a desperation for self gratification. He is inspired by the artists including Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Anger and Kate Bush. Amor Fati (working title) will be a solo danced by [Colin Poole] exploring the Nietzchean theme of fate. The piece will be an artistic collaboration of light provided by collaborator [Chahine Yavyoran], set, speech and sound. [Anna Williams] is interested in the ordinary and the extraordinary, the epic and the intimate. All are all present in this duet about a woman who dances and a man who does not, very loosely based on the myth of Orfeo and Euridyce. It will be performed by Anna and [Mark Whitelaw] (The Glee Club, Ducky).Corporate Sponsor Bloomberg. | |
| 4 Sep 08 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L78111470 |
Preview 1 - Aletta Collins/Robin Dingeman/Simon Ellis/Saiko Kino/Chisato Minamimura - T01671897408[Aletta Collins] is creating a solo (title tbc) for dancer [Rachel Krische], which will be a dialogue between Rachel and her laptop. The piece features music by [Peter Morris] and [Mieko Shimizu] at Street Furniture. [Robin Dingemans]' Going on Infinity is a duet featuring [Joanne Fong] and [Delphine Gaborit] that will use dance, light, text and sound in a 15 minute sensorial kidnapping. Robin has described the piece as, "not merely a hedonistic intoxification of the senses, but an engaging heightening of them." [Simon Ellis] presents Gertrud, an imagined conversation between choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser (who died in 1959) and Simon, a solo performer. The piece challenges today's 'culture of forgetting' by bringing a personality from the past, voiced in Austrian and English by two women who danced with Bodenwieser in the 1930s and 40s, to vivid life. To read Simon's blogs about his process and progress on Gertrud, click here .For quite some time [Saiko Kino] has been thinking about how choreographers can expand an audience's imagination and heighten our senses. A collaboration with [Shizuka Hariu] (set), [Jackie Shemesh] (lighting) and dancer [Takashi Ueno], Saiko's piece will be about the dual effects of light and darkness - part fantasy and part sacred, like a Japanese ghost story (a kaidan). [Chisato Minamimura]'s Canon for Duet is a duet with music and film created by [Akira Baba] and Chisato herself. The piece will be unique in directly addressing her deafness, posing the question what is visual sound/music? She is interested in how this visual music is created, and will look at the importance of the body - the dancers’ faces and hands, as well as their movements.Corporate Sponsor Bloomberg. | |
| 2 Sep 08 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L01548093413 |
Finals - Quick!/Self Assembly/Postcard/Silence Speaks Volumes/B for Body - T01490728125The programme for the finals will be the competition's five outstanding pieces, performed together in a mixed bill of the finest new British contemporary dance. Each night the audience will choose its favourite piece, the winner receiving £1,000. After the final performance the judges will announce their choice - The Place Prize Winner 2006 - who receives £25,000. Quick! - Four male dancers and four musicians take on the London business world with Bharata Natyam and unstoppable energy. Self Assembly - A witty and affecting duet danced to a script by [Anthony Minghella], looking at a relationship which works because the pieces don't quite fit together. Postcard - Sun, sea, sand, sex and disability come together in this carefully layered, cooly provocative piece combining film and live action. Silence Speaks Volumes - A crafted and strongly dance piece for five dancers that is awkwardly original and determinedly ambiguous. B for Body - One woman's quest for self-improvement and the body beautiful is sent up in an hilarious and constantly inventive work for three dancers, two Swiss balls and one massage table.Choreographer Nina Rajarani. Choreographer Jonathan Lunn. Choreographer Lucy Suggate. Choreographer Freddie Opoku Addaie. Choreographer Luca Silvestrini. | |
| 20 Sep 06 to 30 Sep 06 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L0827362422 |
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| 15 Sep 04 to 25 Sep 04 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L01783218478 |
