The company are currently making two new works with Matteo Fargion and Annie Lok, which will be touring in early 2014.

‘In C’ by Matteo Fargion

This piece is a direct translation into movement of the iconic minimalist music work of the same name by American composer Terry Riley, made in 1964. The score consists of 53 melodic /rhythmic riffs to be played by any number of musicians on any instrument.  Whereas in the original the musicians are free to move through the score at their own pace, repeating patterns for up to 1 minute each, we decided to compose our translation, structuring it into 11 sections, each led by a different ‘conductor’.

Matteo Fargion was born in Milan 1961. He studied composition with the composers Kevin Volans and Howard Skempton and after graduation played bass guitar for a time in the rock band headed by Chris Newman, a formative experience of live performance. His interest in contemporary dance began after seeing the Merce Cunningham Dance Company perform at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1985. This encounter encouraged him to apply for the International Course for Choreographers and Composers, where he first wrote music for dance and through which he met the choreographer Jonathan Burrows, with whom he has collaborated for more than twenty years.

Since 2002 Burrows and Fargion have made a series of 7 duets together which continue to tour internationally. Fargion has written music for other choreographers including Lynda Gaudreau and Russell Maliphant. Most importantly over the past fifteen years he has developed a strong collaboration with the leading English choreographer Siobhan Davies, writing music for some of her most significant recent work including The Art of Touch (1995), Two Quartets (2007), Minutes for the Collection (2009) and Rotor (2010). Fargion writes also for theatre, particularly in Germany, where he has worked over a number of years at the Residenz Theater Munich and at the Berlin Schaubühne under the direction of Thomas Ostermeier, for whom he wrote music for the prize winning 2004 production of Jon Fosse's play The Girl on the Sofa. His most recent commission was writing stage music for a production of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Theater am Josefstadt Vienna. Matteo is a visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S., Anne Teresa de Keersmaker's school in Brussels. He has made pieces for students at Laban and Chichester University.

'I feel a need' by Annie Pui Ling Lok

'I feel a need' takes its title from one of Dan Hayhurst's tape loop compositions. The piece reflects both the collaged and divergent nature of the soundscore and its persistent repetitive compositional framework. The movement explores notions of weight bearing, structures of support and tensegrity as both a physical and societal phenomenon.

Annie works as a choreographer, dancer and teacher. She trained in visual arts, dance and inter-disciplinary collaboration at the University of Brighton and London Contemporary Dance School.

 She has worked with Matteo Fargion, Les Ballets C de la B and is currently a freelance dancer with Siobhan Davies Dance, Dog Kennel Hill and movement director and choreographer with Babakas Theatre Co. She teaches professional classes at Greenwich Dance Agency, Independent Dance, London Contact Improvisation and with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Co. She is also Resident artist at Greenwich Dance Agency and Associate artist at dancedigital and Step Out Arts. Based in London, her work has also been shown in Europe, China, India, Canada, America, Brazil and the UK.