Another Dance Company's Dance & Text workshop reveals the processes used to create Epithet.
See our video clip for extracts of the dance piece Epithet and the processes used to create it.
Another Dance Company creates...
choreography with an obession for space and an eye for intricate detail.
performances with a fluid movement style that focus upon connections between the space, timing and the body.
Professional Dance Piece: Epithet
Another Dance Company’s captivating dance piece Epithet was created from two very different stories; To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.
The dance does not narrate the stories. Instead the movement conveys the power of fiction and the structure of a text.
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The rhythm of movement is determined by the rhythm of characters’ speech and narration. The emotional journey of central characters within the two books dictates the intensity of sections of movement. The reader’s involvement, compassion and despair at the lives of the fictional characters are displayed through shifts in direction and movement style.
The choreography explores how it feels to be the reader of fiction, and uses an analysis of the language and structure from the texts to determine the movement.
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The piece is performed by three professional dancers and lasts for 30 minutes.
Another Dance Company performed Epithet at The Riley Theatre, Leeds; The Crucible Studio, Sheffield; Ferens Live Art Space, Hull; West Park, Sheffield, as well in secondary schools across Yorkshire June- December 2007.
Professional Dance Piece: Prelude
Alone engrossed in a book the dancer is drawn into the lives of two fictional characters.
Regardless of how dark and uncomfortable their relationship becomes the reader seeks to be exposed to, and immersed in, a fictional world that allows her to examine other people's lives up-close.
Prelude questions how close we can get to the world of fiction.
Prelude was performed at The Studio Theatre; Leeds, Swindon Dance; Swindon, The Greenroom; Manchester, The Cornerstone; Liverpool, Lawrence House Studio; Blackpool, Yorkshire Dance; Leeds.
