Pivot Dance, The Place

Following two years of collaboration, conversation and creation, the artist development project Pivot Dance brings six new works to London dance audiences over three evenings.

This pioneering project was funded with support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and involved choreographers, producers and audience members across Italy, the Netherlands and the UK.

Joseph Toonga (originally from Cameroon but raised in London) uses his signature blend of hip hop and contemporary dance to reflect on the profound experience of fatherhood in the highly physical and emotive Daughter Daughter.

Italy-based Elena Giannotti investigates the physical and mental elements of dreams in Floating House. The choreography incorporates ideas from several artists, striving to produce a performance that is a hopeful expression of their collective imagination.

Inne I Ivàn Pérez (whose work can also be seen in the new BalletBoyz programme) takes inspiration from the ever-changing world we live in for Becoming. This atmospheric piece from the Netherlands-based choreographer sees dancers move in mesmerising entanglements to the electronic music of Rutger Zuydervelt.

Italian choreographer Giorgia Nardin’s Minor Place is a temporary community that needs participation to exist. The piece invites audience members to enter the performance space and engage in simple exercises which connect them with each other. Expect to find a unique sense of poetic artistry in the act of looking, listening and moving…

In London-based, Israeli-born Sivan Rubinstein’s Maps, three dancers bring the world map to life in a continuous, culturally mixed, rhythmic groove. The piece is a consideration of how globalisation and freedom of information have disturbed our understanding of borders, set to the music of a live musician.

Dario Tortorelli’s D No Body is a series of dance installations exploring the meaning of identity. In Part 5 of this series, Netherlands-based Tortorelli’s alter ego Romeo Hart examines our obsession with constructing perfect images of ourselves. Bodies stride forth in slow motion, building tension and offering a sensory experience that outstrips the visual.

Each of the works is dramatically different in theme, content and movement style but all six explore the shared bonds that make us human.

DATES:
Wednesday 11th October (Daughter Daughter / Floating House)
Saturday 14th October (Becoming / Minor Place)
Wednesday 18th October 2017 (Maps / D No BoDy 5)