Juncture 2014

2014 curated by Wendy Houstoun a festival of contemporary movement, theatre & film work

4-15 March 2014 www.juncturedance.com featuring works & appearances by George Adams John Avery Nicole Beutler Oliver Bray Cathy Butterworth Candoco Dance Company Jordi CortĂŠs Siobhan Davies Hugo Glendinning

Vanessa Grasse Robert M. Hayden David Hinton Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Alexander Kelly Gary Stevens Lucy Suggate Grace Surman Louise Wallinger Vivien Wood

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Juncture 2014 A warm welcome to our second edition of Juncture for which we are absolutely thrilled to be working with acclaimed artist Wendy Houstoun. Feeling my own insight expand is one of the best things about working with Wendy, whose intellect and unique outlook on life are rich, rigorous and stimulating.

What a joy to be able to share a bit of her with you. My thanks to Kirsty Redhead in helping to shape this programme.

Wieke Eringa Artistic Director & CEO,Yorkshire Dance Juncture was first curated for Yorkshire Dance by Charlotte Vincent in an initiative designed to bring new work, professional development, critical debate and innovative performance practice to Yorkshire.

In her own statement from last year Charlotte says she chose artists who were “quiet anarchists, searching for an appropriate language to say what they need to say.”

I would say that holds true for this year too, although perhaps, this time, some of the anarchists are not quite so quiet.

As a first-time curator I blissfully ignored practicalities and went for a kind of dream list of makers, performers, writers and talkers who all inspire and intrigue me.

In all of them I find a clarity and integrity of purpose, a deep connection to their material and the way it relates to an audience.

Among the artists are long term inspirations (Jordi Cortés, Hugo Glendinning, John Avery,Vivien Wood), work influences (Gary Stevens, Grace Surman), brief collisions with the hope for more (Nicole Beutler, Robert M. Hayden, Louise Wallinger) and granted wishes (Riitta Ikonen & Karoline Hjorth).

In a selfish way it is going to give me the chance to start or continue a conversation with them but I am really very much hoping it is a conversation that includes you. Because, of course, without you it is just not the same.

Wendy Houstoun

Wieke Eringa © Yorkshire Dance; Wendy Houstoun © Berkeley White Photography Cover photo from Eyes as Big as Plates © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen

Wendy Houstoun Wendy has worked extensively as a solo performer and in collaboration with companies and artists whose work challenges, enriches, and extends the boundaries of, dance and theatre.

Since 1980, her work with DV8 Physical Theatre, Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment, film-maker David Hinton, Jonathan Burrows, the late Nigel Charnock, Gary Stevens, performance artist Rose English, musician John Avery, Gloria and Ludus Dance Company has explored large and small stages, specific sites, film and installation and created a hallmark intensity of performance.

Her performance style retains a hallmark of honesty, humour and vulnerability and she continues to perform her own work while negotiating the complexities of ageing in a youth focused discipline.

Wendy’s solo pieces, Haunted, Happy Hour (commissioned by Chisenhale Dance Space) and The 48 Almost Love Lyrics have toured Europe.

A recent work, Keep Dancing (a Dance Umbrella Commission), was performed at NRLA, Nottingham Contemporary and at Tanzquartier as part of the mini marathon day for What Escapes project and her latest piece, 50 Acts, is touring in the UK and further afield over the next year.

Wendy has increasingly been creating works for companies. She made Imperfect Storm for Candoco Dance Company, Home on the Range for Yorke Dance Project and has recently created a solo work for Antonia Grove called Small Talk which continues to tour.

In 2013 Wendy won the TMA Achievement in Dance Award for 50 Acts.

Wendy Houstoun in 50 Acts Š Chris Nash

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THU 6 March

5.30pm Tetley Brewery Admission FREE Limited capacity; advance booking essential

Juncture 2014 Launch Reception Limited capacity - advance booking essential Wendy Houstoun and Yorkshire Dance invite you to join us at The Tetley, a new centre for contemporary art and learning in the stunning art deco headquarters of the former Tetley Brewery.

Have a glass of wine, meet some of the artists and audience who’ll make up the Juncture 2014 family, and experience two very special performances...

Hugo Glendinning & John Avery unstill Film installation unstill by photographer and filmmaker Hugo Glendinning is a big-screen projected photo-work with newly commissioned music by John Avery (long-time collaborator with Forced Entertainment and Wendy Houstoun), mixed live for this event.

Glendinning’s work draws on 30 years of photographing dance and performance, also including work from across his archive. John Avery’s music both leads and follows the imagery in a series of long leaning notes that float, and are held, at once in motion and waiting to move. unstill will be open to the public, free of charge, from Fri 7 - Sat 15 March http://thetetley.org/

Candoco Dance Company Miniatures Performance Lea Anderson’s Miniatures is a futuristic nod to the Elizabethan era, playfully musing about what may have gone on ‘outside of the frame’ of traditional portraiture. It’s a charming and rigorous solo inspired by London’s V&A museum’s miniatures portrait collection, full of references to poses, dress and demeanour of the period.

The resulting piece cleverly uses the modern day ‘frame’ of a TV screen, to lure audiences into a locked gaze with Candoco dancer Annie Hanauer, evoking questions around power and reality. unstill © Hugo Glendinning

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Gary Stevens Not Tony Lucy Suggate Liquid Gold Louise Wallinger Annoying the Neighbours Performance

THU 6 March

7.30pm Yorkshire Dance £10.00 / £8.00

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Not Tony by Gary Stevens is like a comedy, quick-change hat routine, where single items (a hat, a beard, a wig or glasses) represent different members of a family.

All speak with the same voice as an ambiguous internal/external conflict is played out. An unnamed, unknown identity emerges in the space between the other established characters. This alien entity was a residue that can only be defined negatively as not any of the others.

“Gary Stevens, one of Britain’s most original performers” Art Monthly

Annie Hanauer in Miniatures © Hugo Glendinning, Gary Stevens in Not Tony © Andrew Whittuck

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Liquid Gold by Lucy Suggate is a visual delight, a sensual and intricate solo where the performer embarks on a luxurious transformation. With liquid limbs and a spine like treacle the body becomes fluid in expression, articulation and thought.

Annoying the Neighbours is a hilarious and disturbing collection of tales of Shooting Squirrels, Using the Neighbour’s Garden as an Ashtray, Letting Yourself In for a Nose Around and Demolishing the Neighbour’s Garage. To create this piece of ‘verbatim theatre’, Louise Wallinger interviewed inquisitive and quarrelling neighbours and the noise officers and council workers who deal with their disputes. In this performance she listens to the edited interviews via an earpiece while repeating their words exactly as they are being spoken. The result is an extraordinary theatrical kaleidoscope of characters and their stories.

“A candid, prurient view of urban London living...

As good as reading the Sunday papers.” The Stage

Don’t rush off after the show... the bar’s open till late!

FRI 7 March

Louise Wallinger Verbatim Theatre Workshop

10.00am-1.00pm Yorkshire Dance £15.00 / £12.00

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Louise Wallinger co-founded Non-Fiction Theatre Company, the first company to develop out of Mark Wing-Davey’s verbatim theatre workshop, Drama without Paper. Louise gathers interviews, edits them, and then performs the edited interviews exactly as she is hearing them through earphones.

Because real speech is examined and reproduced we get two stories – the one the teller intends us to know and the one that is revealed by the way they speak – by

Lucy Suggate © Maria Falconer, Louise Wallinger © Karen Scott Photography

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following the rhythms of their speech, their accent, breath, every hesitation and vocal tic. The workshop will explore interviewing and performing with this technique and will look at what makes a story performable.

Suitable for performers, writers and those wanting to sharpen their listening skills.

Please bring your own recording / playback device and earphones.

Jordi Cortés Integrated Dance

FRI 7 March

Workshop for people with and without disabilities Taking dance and movement as a creation element, this workshop invites people with functional diversity (physically disabled), non professional, with and without dancing experience to create from the difference, to be surprised at the singularities of each other, to reinvent our way of being in the world, to create our relationships.

We will learn to discover dance from a wheelchair, from the floor, from blindness, from the contact with others, from music and from the experience and expression through the movement.

1.30pm-3.30pm Yorkshire Dance £15.00 / £12.00

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We all learn from all.

Jordi Cortés & Integrated Dance workshop © Víctor Navarro

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Grace Surman & Cathy Butterworth Two Four One One

FRI 7 March

4.30pm-6.30pm Yorkshire Dance

Oliver Bray The Animal was Upon Him Performance

£10.00 / £8.00

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Join Grace Surman and Cathy Butterworth for a sculptural performance double act.

How do you find new ways to describe the moon?

Wrestle with a wild beast Read some Proust Recreate small acts of abandonment Evade a census Don’t ask me to make another damn cake Act in a live art context Or maybe you have to stay up all night to find out.

Cathy Butterworth is a performer, curator and researcher in Live Art practices, who for the last 10 years has programmed, produced and performed in projects within this field. In 2011 she began collaborating with Grace Surman and they produced Two Four One One, which was first presented as part of Compass Live Art Festival in Leeds.

Over the last decade Surman has been making work to disentangle, to escape, to slip in and out of logics, of traditions and of modes of selfhood, modes which move between the seemingly honest and the playfully constructed, she works firmly in a tradition that exists to be plundered, revered, and ridiculed in equal measure.

“Grace has been a long-time favourite... idiosyncratic and delightful. I love her intelligence, her presence on stage as if butter wouldn’t melt, and her forensic wit and savagery. This new collaboration with Cathy Butterworth is so welcome; make sure you make a space in your day for this.” Annie Lloyd

Two Four One One © Tim Brunsden

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Oliver Bray’s The Animal was Upon Him is a ridiculous conversation, a wry two-hander of nonsensical, pseudo-philosophical badinage and silliness. It’s a trip to a Victorian zoo, a filthy reading of astral constellations and what it’s like to be an ape. But it’s also really complicated, with more moves than the average game of chess* and a lot more swearing.

“Rats who build the labyrinth from which they will try to escape.” Raymond Queneau Since 1960, the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, the Workshop of Potential Literature, has used constraints and restrictions to generate new writing. This work is a liveannotated example of redesigned OuLiPo constraints applied to a live theatrical context. Echoing the playful, often funny and unpredictably accessible ethos of the OuLiPo, every moment of this performance is the result of an imposed constraint, without exception.

Directed by Oliver Bray, performed by Hannah Butterfield & Oliver Bray.

Oliver Bray is a Theatre Maker based in Leeds. He is also Senior Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University where he leads the MA Performance programme. *Probably Take our FREE coach to Northern School of Contemporary Dance for...

FRI 7 March

NBprojects / Nicole Beutler 1: Songs Performance

7.30pm

Northern School 1: Songs is a solo performance presented of Contemporary as a concert, a Liederkreis, an existential Dance exercise for a singing body. Performer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti surrenders £12.00 / £6.00 her voice to the intense words of tragic F P female figures from the history of theatre, figures such as Antigone, Medea and Gretchen. The suffering of the fictional heroines (and antiheroines) repeatedly enters her very being as she sings, shouts and speaks – she is fragile, raw, calculating and Oliver Bray in The Animal was Upon Him © Malcolm Johnson

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emotional. But who is speaking here? And do the dramatic references from the past resonate in the here and now?

The symbiosis of contemporary electronic music composed by Gary Shepherd and texts from the literary canon forms the basis for a subtle but loud scream against the instability and the incalculable incalculability of our existence.

Nicole Beutler works with the tension between intense emotionality and cool calculation on the one hand and with the reflection on the history of theatre on the other hand.

How do we look at emotions, what moves us and what doesn’t? And in how far does the past resonate through to the contemporary reality? These are issues that are at stake in Nicole Beutler’s work. Always in search of new forms, she now examines working with existing texts.

Music and text shall form the metaphorical basis for a subtle but loud scream against the instability and unpredictablility of existence.

In 2010 Nicole Beutler received the prestigious VSCDMimeprice for 1: Songs. It was also selected by the jury of the flemish Theaterfestival as one of the best performances of the season 2009/2010 and was performed during the Dutch Theaterfestival in 2010. It won the Silver Award for Best Performance (Special Jury Award) in The International Festival of Liberal Theater 2012, Amman, Jordan.

Originally created in collaboration with theatre-maker / performer Sanja Mitrovic, the piece has been performed by Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti since September 2011.

“From gentle, frail and melancholic to rough, wild and hysterical, 1: Songs careers from one emotional extreme to the other as the literary greats infiltrate contemporary reality.”

De Keuze 2010, Theater Festival Flanders Box Office 0113 219 3018 www.nscd.ac.uk/performances

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti in Nicole Beutler’s 1: Songs © Anja Beutler

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Wendy Houstoun invites you to The Coffee Lounge

SAT 8 March

Informal Networking If you’re not attending a workshop, telling your dreams to Louise Wallinger or recovering from the night before, then why not pop into Yorkshire Dance’s North Space for coffee, cake, laid-back tunes and the chance to network and ask Wendy Houston those questions you’ve been longing to ask her...?

10.00am-11.30am

George Adams Paizo [Play]

SAT 8 March

Yorkshire Dance Admission FREE

Workshop The workshop will begin with technique-based warm up followed by an exploratory session focusing on improvisation and play.

10.00am-1.00pm Yorkshire Dance £15.00 / £12.00

Participants will investigate themes addressed by George Adams’ current solo work, Solitaire, commentating on the Artist’s process, autobiography, sexuality, death and risk.

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Louise Wallinger The Dream Teller 1-to-1s

SAT 8 March

Performance Daydreams or night terrors, ambitions for life – realised or not... Tell Louise your dreams and, using Verbatim Technique, Louise will tell them back to you.

10.00am-12.00pm 1.30pm-3.30pm Yorkshire Dance Admission FREE

Are they still what they seemed?

Book your unique 10-minute one-to-one experience by phone only: 0113 243 8765.

Limited capacity – advance booking essential.

Wendy Houstoun © Berkeley White Photography, George Adams © Nicola Selby

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SAT 8 March

Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Eyes as Big as Plates Performance / sharing

2.00pm & 4.00pm Tetley Brewery Admission FREE Limited capacity; advance booking essential

This performance is the culmination of a week’s work, during which the FinnishNorwegian artist duo Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth have been working with older people from Leeds and West Yorkshire. Eyes as Big as Plates is their first collaborative venture.

Starting out as a play on characters from Nordic folklore in 2011, Eyes as Big as Plates has evolved into a continual search for modern human’s belonging to nature.

Inspired by the Romantics’ celebration of imagination, each image presents a solitary figure in a landscape, dressed in elements from surroundings that indicate neither time nor place.

The natural world acts as both content and context in this work, with the characters literally inhabiting the landscape as they become one with their wearable sculpture and the surrounding natural landscape.

Eyes as Big as Plates is produced in collaboration with retired farmers, fishermen, zoologists, plumbers, opera singers, housewives, artists, academics and ninety-year old parachutists. As active participants in our contemporary society, these older people encourage the rediscovery of a demographic group too often marginalized or labelled as a stereotypical cliché. The project aims to generate new perspectives on who we are and where we belong.

The series has so far been exhibited in New York City, Trondheim (2013), Oslo (2012), Tokyo (2012) and Sandnes (2011). A book publication is also underway. www.eyesasbigasplates.com

Eyes as Big as Plates (Tuija) © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen

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Jordi Cortés In Heaven

SAT 8 March

Performance In Heaven is part of a trilogy which began with Lucky and Happy Hour.

In Lucky Jordi Cortés was looking for the people who are no longer here, a journey through life in front of death.

In Happy Hour, he took us on a journey towards happiness.

7.30pm Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Northern Ballet £12.00 / £8.00

F P Now, in In Heaven, Jordi is no longer looking for answers: he’s reached the epiphany of the metaphorical heaven mentioned in the title, which allows him to go beyond the two previous versions of himself and explore a multitude of possibilities.

Jordi Cortés is a choreographer and performer who has worked with companies around the world, including DV8 Physical Theatre and Nigel Charnock + Company.

Suitable for ages 15+ Box Office 0113 220 8008 www.theatreleeds.com

Juncture 2014 Party

SAT 8 March

Join us for a boogie, funky tunes courtesy of DJ Adam Young, and a raffle to win a dance with Jordi Cortés, all set against a looping backdrop of extraordinary film footage.

9.15pm

The party features a performance of Solitaire by George Adams...

Yorkshire Dance Admission £5.00

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MC to his own vaudeville style show, Adams struts recklessly about the stage whilst quaffing alcohol, mocking modern culture and dancing with energy and panache.

Jordi Cortés in In Heaven © Víctor Navarro, George Adams in Solitaire © Nicola Selby

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Lucy Suggate Give Us Our Daily Dance

SUN 9 March

Morning Class 9.45am-10.45am Yorkshire Dance £6.00 / £4.00

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“Five years ago I became interested in developing a daily practice to support and maintain training and help elevate my performance and choreographic work. So I set myself the task of dancing everyday; when I say dancing I mean it in the truest sense. Unleashing an internal force, reconnecting with the feelings and ideas that encouraged me to dance in the first place.

“The class will consist of guided exercises, departure points and lots of flamboyant dancing. We will cultivate a playground of possibilities, discover new forms that collide and stretch our limitations.”

11.00am-1.30pm

Memory, Archive & the Act of Recording with Wendy Houstoun, Alexander Kelly, Vivien Wood and more...

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Open discussion about documentation

SUN 9 March

£5.00

Our working and social lives are increasingly subject to observation, commentary and analysis over which we have less and less control. Sunday at Juncture is devoted to questioning the act of documentation. With live presentation and an open discussion.

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SUN 9 March

Vanessa Grasse Movementscapes Walk

2.00pm Yorkshire Dance to Hyde Park Picture House Admission FREE

Vanessa Grasse leads a walk to Hyde Park Picture House, to arrive in time for the film screenings at 3.30pm. This choreographed journey through the city will heighten our awareness of everyday ‘urban choreographies’ and play with our kinetic and perceptual experience of the space. The walk will suggest new ways to relate to our surroundings and to capture our experience along the way.

Limited capacity – advance booking essential.

Lucy Suggate © Ilaria Costanzo, Third Angel & Mala Voadora’s Story Map © Hannah Nicklin

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All This Can Happen a film by Siobhan Davies & David Hinton Touched choreographed by Wendy Houstoun, directed by David Hinton Film screening

SUN 9 March

3.30pm-5.30pm Hyde Park Picture House Admission £4.50

F P All This Can Happen (2012), is a beautifully choreographed compilation film which invites us on a meditative walk through a not-so-distant past, in the spirit of writer Robert Walser.

A flickering dance of intriguing imagery brings to light the possibilities of everyday movements which appear, evolve and freeze before your eyes. Made entirely from archive photographs and footage from the earliest days of moving image, it follows the footsteps of the protagonist of Walser’s story, ‘The Walk’. Juxtapositions, different speeds and split-frame techniques convey the walker’s state of mind in a world of hilarity, despair and ceaseless variety.

“I have seen a future for dance film and its name is All This Can Happen.”

John Wyver, illuminationsmedia.co.uk Touched is a choreography of close-ups, a romance for hands and faces. The setting is a bar in north London. The characters are people who talk, smoke, drink, dance, fight, laugh and weep. They are just people at a party but, in one way or another, they are all touched.

“David Hinton’s jazz-like, visual poem Touched is a fast-paced, witty look at human connection...”

Dance Connection (Canada)

Box Office 0113 275 2045 www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk All This Can Happen still courtesy of BFI National Archive) / still from Touched © David Hinton

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MON 10 - FRI 14 March 11.00am-3.00pm Yorkshire Dance £120.00 / £80.00

Robert M. Hayden Sifting Five-day Workshop Sifting focuses on the body as a ‘total instrument’, capable of what can be called the ‘total act’, working on physical actions, movement as theatrical act, and the voice.

A series of physical exercises will establish a strong, vital body-breath connection, unlocking the flow of living impulses within the body, allowing our attention, intention and awareness to flow more freely.

Specific ‘impossible’ tasks will allow our inner ‘obstacles’ to become more transparent. Dealing with the element of physical risk or danger, these tasks emphasize our apparent limitations and give us the chance to go beyond them.

By harnessing creative energy in a more present, active and alive manner, the act of creating can then develop within a more structured or compositional frame. Participants will be asked to create a score of actions between 3-5 minutes in length with a clear beginning, middle and end. We will be focusing on its logic, actions, intentions, meaning and content.

This workshop is open to both amateur and professional performers, pedagogues and directors.

SAT 15 March

Wendy Houstoun & Co Stupid Women Performance

7.30pm Yorkshire Dance £6.00

Stupid Women is a live directed improvisation. It aims to combine idiocy with skill, anarchy with meaning and costumes with music. A number of invited guests, of high calibre and low pay, attempt the possible and quite probably fail.

Stupid Women is an endeavour made especially for Juncture as a tribute to the late and great Nigel Charnock whose piece Stupid Men irritated and annoyed most audiences that saw it.

We are hoping to be able to achieve something similar.

Stupid Women has been created at Yorkshire Dance over four days by Wendy Houstoun with Jo Fong, TC Howard, Vivien Wood, Sophie Unwin and others.

Robert M. Hayden © Robert M. Hayden

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Juncture Youth Dance Fringe presents Dancing with your Neighbours

SAT 8 March

a short film

2.00pm

Dancing with your Neighbours is a short film created by young people from Yorkshire Dance Youth who represent areas of Leeds such as Seacroft and Richmond Hill.

Yorkshire Dance Admission FREE

Working alongside professional choreographer Anthony Middleton and group leader Danielle Byars, the group have explored dancing with and for their neighbours.

Shot on location, the film presents a personal insight into the communities, presenting conversations through dance.

Dancing with your Neighbours is curated by Yorkshire Dance Youth and Community team and is presented as part of the Juncture Youth Dance Fringe, an event which aims to engage a younger audience with Juncture.

Other aspects of the fringe include support for young people to view, discuss and blog on Juncture events and an opportunity for young people to meet professional artists to discuss their work.

photo Š Tom Gowanlock

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2014 Festival Pass £85.00 Concessions £65.00

Allows you into all events marked for free

Performance Pass £45.00 Concessions £30.00

Allows you into all events marked for free

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moving people and making them think

MOTHERLAND Directed and Designed by Charlotte Vincent

Thursday 3 April, 7.30pm West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds www.wyp.org.uk / 0113 213 7700 ‘Admirably uncompromising’ The Times

Winding its way through airbrushed beauty, boob jobs and Botox, victim-blaming, slut-shaming, the might of motherhood and the challenge of childlessness, Motherland is a funny and moving show about having it all.

Vincent Dance Theatre’s brilliant, multi-talented ensemble of men, women and children take a look at the gender they were born into and the price they are paying for it.

Spurred on by Simone de Beauvoir, Caitlin Moran and the Spice Girls, Vincent goes into battle with the big boys, arguing against a narrow, over-sexualized definition of femininity to ask: what is it that we really, really want?

Uncompromising yet utterly accessible, Motherland has a broad appeal for both sexes through its potent blend of theatre, live music and dance.

Motherland is a call to arms: one that sticks two fingers up at the shallow hypocrisies and inequalities of our time and asks ‘what do we hope for now?’

www.motherland.org.uk / www.vincentdt.com