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WITHIN

THIS

DUST

About the Show

Within This Dust explores the events surrounding 9/11 and is inspired by the series of photographs by Richard Drew that capture a man falling from the World Trade Center during the attacks. This critically acclaimed work has toured to Sao Paulo, Berlin and New York City 4 times. It had a sold out performance at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center in NYC in April 2017 and was part of the Made in Scotland showcase at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe where it enjoyed a sell out 12 night run.

Print & Materials Print & Posters We can provide A5 flyers and A3 posters.

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We can also provide 950 x 300 pixels image for use in emails/web along with portrait, landscape and square versions of our main marketing image.

These images can be downloaded here: https://goo.gl/xdJwZa Programmes We offer free A4 programmes for venues to distribute to audiences. We offer this as a B&W PDF file that venues should print out at their cost.

Trailers We can provide a 2 minute trailer of the show featuring your logo and box office information.

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Awards & Accolades Highlights for Thomas Small and Shaper/Caper include: •

Robin Howard Foundation Commission

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Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award

• Awarded the first ever opportunity to be Artist in Residence at BBC Radio 2. As part of this process, he is mentored by Google Cultural Institute CEO Amit Sood.

• Creative Scotland full fellowship on the Clore Leadership Programme.

• Within This Dust international touring thanks to inclusion in the 2012 Made In Scotland showcase. Touring to Sao Paulo, Brazil and New York City 5 times • Sold out performance at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center in April 2017 as part of the museum’s 15 year anniversary programme of events.

Selling Points • The awards & accolades that Thomas Small has received as detailed above shows the high quality, skill and craftmanship of his work.

• The work has received critical acclaim with 4 and 5 star reviews from The Herald, The Scotsman, The List and others.

• The work has toured internationally to sell out audiences proving a hugely popular show.

• The work is about a global event that had a major impact on the world and explores terrorism, humanity, loss and grief.

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Shaper/Caper prides itself on creating work that is accessible and emotionally relevant to people’s lives. The work is not a ‘typical’ dance show and appeals to a wider audience who enjoy theatre, music and film.

Short copy (70 words) 15 years after the events of 9/11, multi award-winning choreographer and BBC Radio 2 Artist in Residence Thomas Small, presents his critically acclaimed production, Within This Dust, inspired by photographer Richard Drew’s iconic images of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the attacks. Within This Dust has toured to sell-out international audiences in Sao Paulo, Berlin and 9/11 Memorial & Museum at World Trade Center in NYC.

Long copy (116 words) 15 years after the events of 9/11, multi award-winning choreographer and BBC Radio 2 Artist in Residence Thomas Small, presents his critically acclaimed production Within This Dust. Inspired by photographer Richard Drew’s iconic images of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the attacks, Within This Dust has been presented to sell-out audiences around the world including Sao Paulo, Berlin and 9/11 Memorial & Museum at World Trade Center in NYC. This cinematic performance by Dundee based dance company Shaper/Caper, includes 3 live dance works blended with animation and survivor’s accounts, balancing beautiful movement and subtle storytelling to explore themes of, loss, survival and humanity in relation to the stark horror of that day.

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Creative Learning Creative Learning underpins all our work at Shaper/Caper. We deliver workshops for all ages including a partnership with NHS in which we have worked with over 45,000 children! We also work in care homes with people living with dementia and provide performance workshops for young children and their families.

As part of our Within This Dust programme we can offer any of the following options as a bespoke package: •

Post Show Discussion

• Masterclass with our choreographer and professional dancers • Schools or community residency to create a short performance for inclusion in the show.

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Workshops for schools, colleges and universities to explore the themes and subject matter with our award winning choreographer and professional dancers.

We can design a bespoke creative learning package for anyone regardless of ability or experience.

the poignant last farewell, unknown to them, of two lovers. A brave piece which also takes some courage to watch.

The Herald – 4 stars THE dust from 9/11 will never truly settle. Not just because artists and performers continue to respond to the events of that day, but because – as the voice-overs in Smallpetitklein's six-part collage of live dance works, film, installation and soundscape make harrowingly clear – the powdery fallout from the debris is still causing ill health today.

The images that inspired choreographer Thomas Small were, however, the photographs of so-called 'jumpers'. Falling Man, the solo that ends Within This Dust, references the outlines those bodies etched upon the air: but if Tom Pritchard's eloquent limbs bring those shapes alive, the intensity of his demeanour and of the words that ripple out like a stream of consciousness, compel us to address the full horror of the situation, and ponder what we would do if...

Before this, flurries of white paper have suggested the shockwaves of crumpling concrete, the snowstorm of documents spiralling from blasted offices. S/He has tenderly explored the burden of grief and loss through the patternings of a male/female duet where the mirroring of moves, the counterbalances, the high lifts, all speak of a rapport that will, like those others who perished, fall victim on 9/11.

Fest – 4 stars Among the images published in the aftermath of 11 September 2001, one of the most controversial was Richard Drew's photograph of a man falling between the twin towers. Taking as inspiration this picture and all it came to represent, Smallpetitklein's thoughtfully executed triple bill is not only a beautiful piece of dance, an elegy to the estimated 200 people who died in this way on 9/11, but also a sensitive reminder that theirs was a situation any one of us could have faced.

In Embers, leaves of pure-white paper fall one by one from a bundle in Marta Masiero's clutch. Later she tosses and turns in the endless mass, singling out several pages and pressing them flat, each as individual in its shape as a person.

The tragic beauty of S/HE continues to haunt long after it has finished.

Masiero and Tom Pritchard evoke a deep sense of loss in this duet that sees them mirroring, gliding, lifting and balancing weightlessly against one another.

Finally, Falling Man uses text from Tom Junod's 2009 Esquire article on Drew's famous image to echo movement that suggests not only the freedom of flying but also the terror of falling. There is a moment when,

lying prostrate, an unseen force pins Pritchard's legs and arms back. At the utter mercy of the elements he rides this wave peacefully for a few moments. When it passes, and he falls flat again, it seems that whatever circumstances came together to cause it, he has had his moment of grace.

Across the Arts – 4 stars Weightless haunting shadows form images which float through and across the space. The piece, an extension and continuation from 'Falling Man', is composed out of six different responses to the events of 9/11. Aural, visual and physical, each section depicts different ideas to form a more holistic perspective on how the tragedy shook the western world in 2001. 'Embers', a solo surrounded by crushed up paper, a beautiful depiction of the weighty-heavy suppression of those who aren't there anymore, for me stood out as the gem in this piece; so many have chosen to examine those who fell, however the people who mourn are rarely chosen as the topic of 9/11 pieces. A poignant and evocative piece which builds a larger picture, drawn from the magnification of the image of one man.