Bodies under the microscope, power relationships, and territories collide head-on in this high energy, intensely physical show. Bare Bones 6 treats audiences to an up close and personal experience at the Weston Studio at Wales Millennium Centre on Monday 16 March at 8pm.It’s up close because it’s performed ‘in the square’ with the audience seated on all four sides of the performance space as four men and two women blaze across the dance floor choreographed by an international array of dance makers. Rui Horta’s Container features all six dancers and is created in angular patterns, using space as both a territory to be defended and a place to achieve intimacy with others. What happens when we enter a room and we find it full of people, sharing the space with us, all with their own habits and expectations? And what happens when we enter an empty room, a place waiting to accept others, where there is a sense of something about to happen, and then leaving it again? Rui comments: “I like this 9m x 9m room that was given to me to create my piece; I like its simplicity. Almost no lights and no objects, just the bodies defining and altering space – a place...full of possibilities, full of anticipation.” Garry Stewart’s Magnification is a piece for three dancers where the inner workings of the body are put under the magnifying glass. Minute bodily functions such as the growth of cells and the stretching of muscles are amplified and explored through inventive choreography and an evocative sound score using Foley sound effects. Beginning with small detailed movements, the work evolves into acts of highly charged physicality as the dancers discover the unlimited functional capabilities of the human body. Following on from the success of With The Company We Keep (created for the Bare Bones 2006 tour of The 5 Man Show), Artistic Director David Massingham presents a new work called Hinterland – a highly physical piece for all six dancers combining dazzling leaps and lifts. Straight Talking by Charlotte Vincent is a solo work, a manifesto against convention and one man’s attempt to ‘get beyond the beautiful dance’. Awkward, contorted and wrestling with his own physicality, dancer Robert Clark attempts something different, putting dance out of action for once, for reasons only he can fathom. Find out more and watch video footage of the show at www.barebonesdance.co.uk Suitable for 14yrs+ Performance details: Weston Studio, 8pm, Monday 16 March 2009. Tickets £12 (Reductions £10) Under 26s £5 (limited availability). Contact the Box Office on 08700 40 2000. About Bare Bones Bare Bones is a professional touring company managed by DanceXchange, the national dance agency for Birmingham & the West Midlands. Designed for presentation in no-frills spaces both on and off the established touring circuit, Bare Bones provides an unprecedented opportunity for urban, rural and international audiences to appreciate extraordinary choreography in a welcoming and captivating format. By turns intimate and explosive, fragile and frantic, its refreshingly diverse programme has exhilarated audiences of both seasoned dance fans and newcomers alike. Conceived for presentation in the round, with audiences seated in close proximity to the performance area, Bare Bones is immediate in its appeal, honesty and energy – presenting superb dancing and original choreography. |
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