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In Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3) the South-African born, Europe-based choreographer Tiran Willemse invokes his own multiple histories of dance through a kaleidoscope of the 19th century ballet classic Giselle, the Kuduro from Angola, and the Nigerian genre Alanta. The ghost story of Giselle becomes the primary vehicle through which Willemse gives his past selves space to be as they are – ghosts, not dead, who have not left fully, though they may have been asked to. Both an exercise and an exorcism, Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3) is an evocation of Black experience within European contexts, and a thinly veiled masquerade of its absurdities. As differently gendered bodies claim space for expression, their haunting simultaneously haunts cisnormativity.

What bubbles to the surface may be headless but it’s not shy. The emerging dance is simultaneously a solo by Willemse and an ensemble performed with the unresolved tensions that move him. In limbo between presence and absence, these bodies -rendered invisible, suppressed, (as certain histories often are) invited, or not- have nevertheless come back to reclaim Willemse’s body. These multiple consciousnesses are given the room to rehearse both as and with Willemse, a repétition (rehearsal) with a difference.

The 3:30pm performance of Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3) on Sunday 20 October is included in our Bear (AKA Full Week) and Otter (Weekend Max) Passes. Click here for more information about our passes.

Credits

Concept, Artistic Direction & Performance: Tiran Willemse
Dramaturgy: Andros Zins-Browne
Music: Tobias Koch
Choreographic Advice: Laurent Chétouane
Light Design: Fudetani Ryoya
Light Operator: Max Windisch-Spoerk
Sound Operator: Thibault Villard
Production: Paelden Tamnyen, Rabea Grand

Co-Production: Gessnerallee Zürich, Arsenic – Contemporary Performing Arts Center, Lausanne 

Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Pro Helvetia, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Migros-Kulturprozent

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‘No adoption show! Too private, too personal, too intimate, too triggering, too scary, and too many ramifications you can’t control!’

Writer has broken a promise: this show is the consequence(s).

Set in a forest of bloody eggs, ghost family members, vaudeville politicians and broken TVs, Twine is the story of how Seed, Sapling and Bark liberated themselves and each other from a legacy of shame, violence and silence.  Irreverent and full of yearning, Twine offers a unique odyssey into all that our families are, and all that they could be.

Fall into a forest of family trees haunted by Stuart Hall and bell hooks, Kat Slater (yes, that one) and Medea, where taboos are broken, and yearnings and desires grow deeper, richer and riskier than they could ever have imagined.

‘Abolish Adoption! Even if yours went well. Abolish the family! Even though we love them’

Twine is a story about love and loneliness, families and ghosts, and the way in which one shattering moment can transform multiple family trees for generations to come.

The 7pm performance of Twine on Saturday 19 October is included in our Bear (AKA Full Week) and Otter (Weekend Max) Passes. The 7pm performance of Twine on Friday 18 October is included in our Pup (Weekend Lite) Passes. Click here for more information about our passes.

Following the 2pm performance of Twine on Saturday 19 October will be a free Open Discussion + Q&A from 4pm to 5:30pm. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Credits

Written by: Selina Thompson
In Collaboration with: Jennifer Tang (Director) & Naomi Kuyck-Cohen (Designer) 

Commissioned by Yard Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Live Theatre, Theatre in the Mill & Cambridge Junction with support from the Stobbs New Ideas Fund. 

With support from ‘Support Not Separation’ & the Foster Parents, Adopters, Social Workers, Academics, Artists & Activists that have shared their stories. 

Twine R&D was originally supported by an Arts Council of England (ACE) Project Grant; Selina Thompson Ltd is an ACE ‘National Portfolio Company’

Access

Please check back closer to the performance date for further access information.

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Zer-brech-lich is a captivating musical dance theatre production suitable for audiences of all ages. In this mesmerizing performance, three talented disabled performers bring to life songs specially composed by Swiss musician Gina ÉTÉ. These songs share a common theme: fragility, explored from both personal and political perspectives. Can fragility be a powerful political statement? Is it possible that fragility possesses a unique power to unite people and act as a catalyst to challenge the false ideals of strength, beauty, and success often perpetuated by ableist societies? How can fragility unite people?

Throughout the performance, the performers answer these questions through a blend of direct, political, and poetic expression, often infused with humour. They dance with their vulnerability, caring for and supporting each other as they playfully construct and deconstruct images and sets. By doing so, they reveal the raw mechanisms behind the creation of ‘illusions,’ aiming to spark the audience’s imagination of a future where diversity replaces the ‘norm.’

Through their dynamic and heartfelt expressions, the performers of Zer-brech-lich invite the audience to rethink societal perceptions of fragility and strength. Their performance is a poignant reminder that true power and beauty lie in embracing and celebrating our differences.

The 2pm performance of Zer-brech-lich on Sunday 20 October is included in our Bear (AKA Full Week) and Otter (Weekend Max) Passes. The 7pm performance on Saturday 19 October is included in our Pup Pass. Click here for more information about our passes.

Credits

Directed and Choreographed: Alessandro Schiattarella
Choreographed and Performed by: Victoria Antonova, Alice Giuliani, Meret Landolt (x Laila White)
Sound: Eugenio Fabiani
Video: Manuel Justo
Voice Off: Linda Wolf
Music Songwriting: Gina ÉTÉ
Musical Director: Richard Schwennicke
Stage Design: Margarete Albinger
Costume Design: Giulia Marcotullio
Light Design: Uwe Wegner
Dramaturgy: Martin Mutschler
Props: Stella Kuprat, Ingmar Mühlich


Zer-brech-lich is the inaugural production of the Jupiter project, co-produced by the Opera and Schauspielhaus Hannover, together with the Theaterformen Festival, in cooperation with the Hamburg Theatre Academy. It is now part of the association cinquantatré based in Basel, Switzerland, and supported by the Fachausschuss Theater und Tanz.

Access

This show has integrated audio description and subtitles in English.

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‘No adoption show! Too private, too personal, too intimate, too triggering, too scary, and too many ramifications you can’t control!’

Writer has broken a promise: this show is the consequence(s).

Set in a forest of bloody eggs, ghost family members, vaudeville politicians and broken TVs, Twine is the story of how Seed, Sapling and Bark liberated themselves and each other from a legacy of shame, violence and silence.  Irreverent and full of yearning, Twine offers a unique odyssey into all that our families are, and all that they could be.

Fall into a forest of family trees haunted by Stuart Hall and bell hooks, Kat Slater (yes, that one) and Medea, where taboos are broken, and yearnings and desires grow deeper, richer and riskier than they could ever have imagined.

‘Abolish Adoption! Even if yours went well. Abolish the family! Even though we love them’

Twine is a story about love and loneliness, families and ghosts, and the way in which one shattering moment can transform multiple family trees for generations to come.

The 7pm performance of Twine on Saturday 19 October is included in our Bear (AKA Full Week) and Otter (Weekend Max) Passes. The 7pm performance of Twine on Friday 18 October is included in our Pup (Weekend Lite) Passes. Click here for more information about our passes.

Following the 2pm performance of Twine on Saturday 19 October will be a free Open Discussion + Q&A from 4pm to 5:30pm. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Credits

Written by: Selina Thompson
In Collaboration with: Jennifer Tang (Director) & Naomi Kuyck-Cohen (Designer) 

Commissioned by Yard Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Live Theatre, Theatre in the Mill & Cambridge Junction with support from the Stobbs New Ideas Fund. 

With support from ‘Support Not Separation’ & the Foster Parents, Adopters, Social Workers, Academics, Artists & Activists that have shared their stories. 

Twine R&D was originally supported by an Arts Council of England (ACE) Project Grant; Selina Thompson Ltd is an ACE ‘National Portfolio Company’

Access

Please check back closer to the performance date for further access information.

BUY TICKETS HERE

Zer-brech-lich is a captivating musical dance theatre production suitable for audiences of all ages. In this mesmerizing performance, three talented disabled performers bring to life songs specially composed by Swiss musician Gina ÉTÉ. These songs share a common theme: fragility, explored from both personal and political perspectives. Can fragility be a powerful political statement? Is it possible that fragility possesses a unique power to unite people and act as a catalyst to challenge the false ideals of strength, beauty, and success often perpetuated by ableist societies? How can fragility unite people?

Throughout the performance, the performers answer these questions through a blend of direct, political, and poetic expression, often infused with humour. They dance with their vulnerability, caring for and supporting each other as they playfully construct and deconstruct images and sets. By doing so, they reveal the raw mechanisms behind the creation of ‘illusions,’ aiming to spark the audience’s imagination of a future where diversity replaces the ‘norm.’

Through their dynamic and heartfelt expressions, the performers of Zer-brech-lich invite the audience to rethink societal perceptions of fragility and strength. Their performance is a poignant reminder that true power and beauty lie in embracing and celebrating our differences.

The 2pm performance of Zer-brech-lich on Sunday 20 October is included in our Bear (AKA Full Week) and Otter (Weekend Max) Passes. The 7pm performance on Saturday 19 October is included in our Pup Pass. Click here for more information about our passes.

Credits

Directed and Choreographed: Alessandro Schiattarella
Choreographed and Performed by: Victoria Antonova, Alice Giuliani, Meret Landolt (x Laila White)
Sound: Eugenio Fabiani
Video: Manuel Justo
Voice Off: Linda Wolf
Music Songwriting: Gina ÉTÉ
Musical Director: Richard Schwennicke
Stage Design: Margarete Albinger
Costume Design: Giulia Marcotullio
Light Design: Uwe Wegner
Dramaturgy: Martin Mutschler
Props: Stella Kuprat, Ingmar Mühlich


Zer-brech-lich is the inaugural production of the Jupiter project, co-produced by the Opera and Schauspielhaus Hannover, together with the Theaterformen Festival, in cooperation with the Hamburg Theatre Academy. It is now part of the association cinquantatré based in Basel, Switzerland, and supported by the Fachausschuss Theater und Tanz.

Access

This show has integrated audio description and subtitles in English.

BUY TICKETS HERE

In Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3) the South-African born, Europe-based choreographer Tiran Willemse invokes his own multiple histories of dance through a kaleidoscope of the 19th century ballet classic Giselle, the Kuduro from Angola, and the Nigerian genre Alanta. The ghost story of Giselle becomes the primary vehicle through which Willemse gives his past selves space to be as they are – ghosts, not dead, who have not left fully, though they may have been asked to. Both an exercise and an exorcism, Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3) is an evocation of Black experience within European contexts, and a thinly veiled masquerade of its absurdities. As differently gendered bodies claim space for expression, their haunting simultaneously haunts cisnormativity.

What bubbles to the surface may be headless but it’s not shy. The emerging dance is simultaneously a solo by Willemse and an ensemble performed with the unresolved tensions that move him. In limbo between presence and absence, these bodies -rendered invisible, suppressed, (as certain histories often are) invited, or not- have nevertheless come back to reclaim Willemse’s body. These multiple consciousnesses are given the room to rehearse both as and with Willemse, a repétition (rehearsal) with a difference.

The 3:30pm performance of Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3) on Sunday 20 October is included in our Bear (AKA Full Week) and Otter (Weekend Max) Passes. Click here for more information about our passes.

Credits

Concept, Artistic Direction & Performance: Tiran Willemse
Dramaturgy: Andros Zins-Browne
Music: Tobias Koch
Choreographic Advice: Laurent Chétouane
Light Design: Fudetani Ryoya
Light Operator: Max Windisch-Spoerk
Sound Operator: Thibault Villard
Production: Paelden Tamnyen, Rabea Grand

Co-Production: Gessnerallee Zürich, Arsenic – Contemporary Performing Arts Center, Lausanne 

Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Pro Helvetia, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Migros-Kulturprozent

‘Golden Age’ is a project that takes the form of guided tours of shopping centres, banks and office buildings in the manner of sightseeing strolls through archaeological sites. These places escape our attention on a daily basis and are rarely considered beyond their functional dimension. Starting from the architecture of these specific buildings, the public is invited to walk through the spaces of consumption, capital and wage labour.

These particular spaces, which can be found in any city, are the embodiment of capital, employment and consumerism. Designed in the 20th century, they contain within them models of organisation, circulation and scenography that inspire wonder, confidence, security and discipline.

By treating the visit as a dramatic object, the artists conduct another investigation: what do we do when we visit a place as a group?

For this Birmingham iteration, our local guide will be performer Adaya Henry and the tour will take place within the Bullring & Grand Central complex.

The starting location will be emailed to ticket bookers. This is a limited capacity event and is not included in the ticket discount scheme.

This is a walking tour, which involves walking at a gentle pace for 70 minutes. You will wear headphones throughout and have a guide with you.

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

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