Motionhouse - Broken - Selling Pack

Participatory Options and Residency Packages

We have extensive experience in delivering a wide range of participatory projects to all ages and abilities alongside our productions and Broken is available as the centrepiece of a residency in your area. Committed to delivering exceptional participatory activity to accompany our performance we can tailor-make residencies to suit your needs.

“The revelation of the 17th annual Sibiu International Theatre Festival” Constantin Chiriac | Sibiu International Theatre Festival Director on Scattered

Our 2005/06 production Perfect is currently a set piece on the national GCSE Dance curriculum and previous Motionhouse shows have also been recommended pieces on the A Level Performance Studies syllabus. Workshops and residencies exploring these works continue to prove popular and are excellent ways to develop younger audiences.

Residencies may include one-off workshops, creative projects leading to performance by ‘core’ groups, professional development and teacher training, skills development, open company class and post show discussions.

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We can work with a wide variety of ages and abilities and all our workshops emphasise creativity.

For More Information Contact Jo Valentine | Programme Manager Jo@motionhouse.co.uk Motionhouse | Spencer Yard | Leamington Spa Warwickshire | CV31 3SY +44 (0)1926 887 052 info@motionhouse.co.uk Motionhouse is supported by

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“Super athletic dancers, as dextrous in the air and with ropes as they are powerful on the floor, this is a company that has long cornered the high impact end of the market” The Guardian

“Motionhouse’s work is some of the most startling and original performance based contemporary dance I have had the pleasure of witnessing... the original dynamic performance and sheer talent of the performers leaves the viewer utterly amazed. The incredible physical achievements and beautiful dance by this group are just captivating” Sir Richard Taylor | Weta, New Zealand | (Creators of Avatar)

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Motionhouse’s brand new theatre production Broken will be available for touring from autumn 2013, premiering at Warwick Arts Centre on 02 October with two further performances on 03 and 04 October.

Broken is Motionhouse’s newest visually thrilling touring production, in which Artistic Director Kevin Finnan continues his exploration of elemental themes. Building on the success of our critically acclaimed best seller Scattered, which explored the theme of water, Broken takes the theme of the earth and investigates our precarious relationship with it through our internationally lauded dance and film integration. Finnan questions our ambivalence towards our wonderful world, that is, until disaster strikes.

Using multiple layers of scrolling film and Motionhouse’s highly physical dance style Broken creates an intriguing computer game-esque world of tunnels and burrows, shifting perspectives and seesawing slopes and platforms. Hanging in suspense, diving for support and scrambling to safety, the dancers negotiate the cracks and craters of this world of illusions where nothing is quite as it seems.

Designed by long-term collaborator Simon Dormon, with projections courtesy of international digital innovators Logela Multimedia, Broken will be an unashamedly visual spectacle: ravishing, delicate and poignant, taking the audience on a journey into the earth as they have never seen it before.

Minimum Technical Needs

As with all Motionhouse productions, Broken will have an extraordinary set. We anticipate needing a footprint 9m deep * 10m wide with a minimum height clearance to overhead bars of 6.5m. We will need two or three fixed points from the overhead grid for suspending people. We will hang a projector from your Number 1 bar.