The Living Room
Yael Flexer & Nic Sandliland / Dance & Digital Works
‘Dance that is unaffected, unforced, charming and smart.’ Time Out
‘Witty without being contrived, sweet without being cloying and clever without
being po-faced…this furniture gets my vote.’ LondonDance.com‘A gently deviant sense of humor’. The Guardian
‘An innately playful yet thoughtful package of post-modern concepts…fast, fluid, full bodied’. Dance Europe
Venues:
7.30pm, 12 May 2011 at the Doncaster Civic Theatre (as part of Hothouse 2011).
Tel: 01302 342 349
7.30pm, 18 May 2011 at the The Point, Eastleigh
Tel: 023 8065 2333
Following sell-out performances in Israel and across the UK, award-winning choreographer, Yael Flexer (formally Bedlam Dance Company) is back on the touring circuit and has joined forces with digital artist Nic Sandiland. Working together under the production company Dance and Digital Works, this unification signifies the growing collaborative work the pair has produced over the last few years, creating live work for the stage as well as gallery-based and sited digital installations.
Currently Associated Artists with Woking Dance Festival, both Yael and Nic have been creating and touring critically acclaimed work for the past 18 years. Their crrent work work has commissioned by a range fo partners including Middlesex University, University of Chichester and DanceDigital.
Yael and Nic’s work generates of a sense of intimacy in live performance and digitalinstallation, acknowledging the physicality and presence of the viewer. Works play with the viewer as potential witness and occasional accomplice.
The Living Room is an intimate dance set in what appears to be the bare bones of a living or rehearsal room. Inhabiting an imagined domestic space, the work cuts fastpaced movement with informal banter and wry humour.
Yael Flexer’s distinctive choreography effortlessly intertwines witty delivery with dance that is intricate and emotionally driven. Music is by Nye Parry and cellist Karni Postel; lighting is by Michael Mannion; costumes by Holly Murray; and dramaturgy by live artist Gary Stevens. An international ensemble of dancers includes Lyndsey McConville (UK), Aneta Szydlak (Poland), Aya Kobayashi (Japan), Luke Birch (UK) and Hannah Martin (UK) alongside some special guests invited into The Living Room.
www.yaelflexer.com / www.nicsandiland.com
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