Impending: Head to head, head to bum, crotch to crotch
2019
PremierE: The Place, 9.06.2019, London
Your current concerns
Your pleasures
The boldness that holds you amorphous
Something glides down your leg
It distracts you
Your shape mass blurs, fogging into the soft edged shape mass next to you You’ve become the room
Glacial, moody, a construct
You’ll hang out here for a while
Things will unsettle
Spilling dragging cat dogging
How to sustain
How to be with
Drawing on previous material from duet works Slug Horizons and Apparition Apparition Stainton and Peake bring the principles of these works to collaborate with dance artists Hannah Adams, Greta Gauhe, Alejandra Gissler, Alka Nauman, Lucie Palazot, Marta Stepien. Images of Glacial Carving and land masses shifting, we think about being with difficult times, being with each other, different relational modes inside trouble, slippage between form/sculpture and human within this time of ecological and political unrest. The auditorium becomes a space to offer intimacy, care and friction.
Credits:
Initiation: Martin Hargreaves
Direction & Choreography: Florence Peake and Eve Stainton
Performance and Devising: Hannah Adams, Greta Gauhe, Alejandra Gissler, Alka Nauman, Lucie Palazot, Marta Stepien
Scenography: Florence Peake, Eve Stainton, Christopher Füllemann in collaboration with performers
Costumes: Sophie Donaldson and Francis Morris
Photos: Rocio Chacon
Supported by The Place, London Contemporary Dance School, Arts Council England
alka nauman is a multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, dancer, movement director and author of texts.sometimes antisocial always antifascist! 