The company

• Kerry Childs
• Rachael Dutton
• Lyndsey Harding
• Kerrie Nugent
• Emma Wainwright
• Yanyan Wang

The Repertoire

'We Is A Collective Process'

Choreography: Matthias Sperling

Is we not a collective process? Aren’t we constantly negotiating a balance between our own choices and how they relate to others? This work takes a light-hearted yet practical look at some big questions: Can we choose who we are? How are our individual choices about who we are always made in relation to other people? Can the collective situation of performance be an opportunity for making those choices - in real ways, even if it is in small ways? In answer to these questions, the work takes the form of a lively and curious series of decision-making tasks, each one challenging the performers to engage in the process of exercising their freedom, both individually and collectively.

Matthias Sperling

Choreographer and performer Matthias Sperling is an Associate Artist with Dance4 and winner of a Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award. His work has been presented at Dance Umbrella, Southbank Centre, Nottdance and the Royal Opera House (UK), and internationally at Springdance (Netherlands), Les Repérages (France) and Tanztendenzen (Germany). His collaborations with choreographer Siobhan Davies have been presented at the Whitechapel, Hayward, IKON and Victoria Miro galleries. He has collaborated with visual artists including Pablo Bronstein and Hetain Patel on performance works for Tate Modern, the ICA, Tramway and New Art Exchange. His commissions have included works for Candoco Dance Company, Southbank Centre, Dance Umbrella, Mapdance and EDge. Originally from Canada, he has been based in the UK since 1997, where he initially performed with companies including Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures and Wayne McGregor's Random Dance. In his most recent work Do Not Be Afraid, he dons superhero lycra to propose that the dance performer’s superpower is the ability to make their mind visible for an audience, in and through their body. www.matthias-sperling.com

Choreography: Colin Poole

Music: Murcof - Memoria; Klaus Obermeier - edited extracts from Odyssey and North-Northwest.

This piece has been realized over 13 days in collaboration with the dancers. They’ve worked on tasks to explore their uniqueness in moving and searched for kinaesthetic ways to show connections and relationships. Although we've avoided any attempt to present a 'meaning' through this dance we do hope that what we show will find a way to be meaningful. I thank this dynamic, skillful and imaginative group of individuals for their generous enthusiasm in bringing together a rich mix of qualities, which has made this project enjoyable and possible. Colin Poole

Colin Poole

Colin Poole is an independent choreographer and performer. He danced with Phoenix and Rambert dance before embarking on a choreographic career that spans residencies at The Place, Royal Opera House, GDA and commissions, a fellowship and numerous awards from ACE. He has been twice nominated for the Jerwood award and was a Place Prize semi-finalist. Colin has worked for over a decade in higher education, most recently creating works for Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Laban’s post-graduate company Transitions, Mapdance Chichester and graduates of The Place. He is a Feldenkrais Practitioner, Aikido instructor, has a Masters Degree in Dance and Somatic Well-being and is currently lecturing at Laban. Colin’s latest production Because we care is a collaboration with Simon Ellis, funded by ACE.