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| Faultline Inspired by the book Londonstani by Gautam Malkhani, Faultline (2006) portrays the energies and anxieties of British Asian Youth. It moves between dance, film (by Pete Gomes) and specially commissioned music (Scanner, Errollyn Wallen). The lighting design is by Lucy Carter and costume by Ursula Bombshell. The movement flows from the concept of ‘mixed codes’ finding its progress through historical techniques as well as street gestures. Patricia Rosario, live soprano soloist, acts like the chorus in a Greek play supporting and colouring the action on stage. Faultline was premiered at The Brewhouse, Taunton. |
 Photo: Chris Nash, Dancers: Mandeep Raikhy & Devaraj Thimmaiah |
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| Exit No Exit A girl sits and waits at a table as the audience enters. Her interaction with the space and the ensemble (six ‘regular’ dancers) is obviously problematic. While the dancers go though the classic exits and entrances that performers usually deploy in their engagement with theatre space, the lone woman seems to have different expectations of the space in use. She seems to want to reveal the stage for the sham and pretence that it is. Michael Nyman composed music for Exit No Exit. The designers are Lucy Carter and Nicola Bruce. Exit No Exit premiered at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London, 2005. |
 Photo: Chris Nash, Dancer: Kamala Devam |
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| Flicker The essential instability of our visual perception is the theme of Flicker (2004). When the screen in front of us flickers we usually read it as a malfunction. However it is also a salutary reminder of the machinery and mechanism that conditions how we see and what we see. Flicker uses a specially commissioned motion capture program by the Hoxton based company Digit to film the dancers live and project digitized versions of this on to the back screen. The spectator is forced to confront two versions of the same event. Michael Nyman was commissioned to compose a new score for Flicker. The designers are Guy Hoare and Ursula Bombshell. Flicker premiered at The Northern School of Music, Manchester. |
 Photo: Chris Nash, Dancers: Navala Chaudhari, Rathimalar Govindarajoo & Saju Hari |
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