This event finished on: 19 June 2010
Dancing with the audience on all sides, close up and not just in front, means for RADC shifting its game. Unsettling in the best sense and exposing – you’ll see everything. Its Upclose programme has all this in mind, with brand new works by Richard Alston and Martin Lawrance.
Martin Lawrance’s premiere checks out the Lie of the Land, dancers shifting sharply to the abrupt percussive bursts of Ryoji Ikeda.
Alston’s new Even More explores the close contact and small signals that dancers use to stay in touch, even more closely visible when seen from so near.
Also in the programme to celebrate The Place’s 40th anniversary, Alston’s earliest existing work, Something to Do, created within a month of The Place opening in 1969. A young artist’s credo, if you like, with the older Alston himself reading text by Gertrude Stein.
Light Flooding into Darkened Rooms, a duet made in 1997, has a sense of intimate small space, marked out by light spilling through windows. Inspired by the paintings of Vermeer, the dance is accompanied by the quiet sensuality of 17th century lute music played live by James Woodrow.
+ post-show Q&A on Wed 16 June.
LIE OF THE LAND
WORLD PREMIERE
Choreography Martin Lawrance
Music Ryoji Ikeda
EVEN MORE
WORLD PREMIERE
Choreography Richard Alston
Music Prokofiev, Sonata No 6 for piano
SOMETHING TO DO
Choreography Richard Alston
Text Gertrude Stein
LIGHT FLOODING INTO DARKENED ROOMS
Choreography Richard Alston
Music Denis Gaultier/Jo Kondo
Guitar/Mandolin James Woodrow