Category: SD Video

From left field comes a performance you would never expect and on some levels looks like it was designed to test the stamina of the dancers to their absolute limits.

If you like your dance with virtuoso physicality then New Art Club is not for you. Tom Roden and Pete Shenton have made an entire repertoire of work being as anti-virtuoso as possible. ‘The Visible Men’ is an hour long show featuring a lot more of the duo’s stand-up/contemporary dance routine.

Liz Lea’s ‘Quicksliver’ is the second of our featured solo works from BDE 08. Often times the solo can be a hit and miss affair usually because the work goes on way to long. ‘Quicksliver’ does the job right though by keeping the length, pacing and performance at just the right levels.

When we hear that a dance work is going to be performed in silence we, here in TheLab™, become just a little bit wary. Music, for us, is so intrinsically linked to a choreographic piece of work it’s a bit like taking the engine out of a Ferrari and getting excited about pushing it around.

‘Dialogo’ means Dialogue and this work was one of several solo pieces on show at the British Dance Edition. Although strictly speaking it’s not a solo since Mr Abreu appears on stage with his musician Attab Hoddad throughout the piece.

‘Self Assembly’ is the beginnings of a much larger piece and if this small segment is anything to go by then were in for a treat when the thing finally gets finished.

Following our interview with Shobana Jeyasingh a happy coincidence means we can now bring you a video feature on one of the company’s current touring productions ‘Faultline’.

There is very little in the way of press information for ‘Uprising’ and after you watch the show you realise there doesn’t really need to be any.