AUDIENCE MEMBERS & PERFORMANCE / VELOCITIES

In performance we test new ways of engaging audiences in collective experiences. In each performance, we continue to research experiences of disorientation that occur in the asynchrony of individuals to their surroundings and to their communities. The multimodal nature of our enquiry has led us to explore various modes of performance that have audience participation at their core, whether presented on stage or in non-conventional spaces.

ORBITAL ASYMMETRIES, 2023, Rich Mix (London)

Orbital Asymmetries invites you inside a multi-layered experience of dance, film, sound-making and projection to consider together our desires for both autonomy and community.

This show tells the story of four strangers who, over the course of 24 hours, journey together through intimacy, fatigue, play and isolation. They dance through the disorientation that emerges from collective identity, sometimes yielding and sometimes resisting. 

When is it possible to be both in solidarity and in dissonance? How do we retain non-conformity within a community? Can we build kinship in conflict? This work offers up a visually rich and rhythmically playful place to orbit these universal questions.

Credits

Lead Artist: Shivaangee Agrawal 

Visual Artist, Filmmaker, Projection Design: Tom Shennan

Performers: Jane Chan, Takeshi Matsumoto, Meera Patel, Shivaangee Agrawal

Rehearsal Director: Meera Patel

Production Manager: Alex Anzemberger

Production: Metal & Water / Lucia Fortune-Ely, Elsabet Yonas, Lauren Wright, Nancy May Roberts 

Supporting Partners: Kala Sangam, Strike A Light, Talawa Theatre Company, Ugly Duck, Shoreditch Town Hall

WORK IN PROGRESS SHARING, 2022, Kala Sangam

A new folk dance that straddles the tensions of wanting to be alone and wanting to be together, and all the feelings of confusion, responsibility, boredom, intimacy and freedom in between. The dancers use a nine-beat rhythmic cycle to build a non-linear narrative of what it means to be in collectivity. 

Credits

Choreographer: Shivaangee Agrawal

Collaborators / Performers: Jane Chan, Takeshi Matsumoto, Meera Patel and Shivaangee Agrawal

Live Music: Tom Shennan 

Production: Nancy May Roberts

Photography: Karol Wyszynski

LIVE MOVEMENT INSTALLATION, 2021, Kala Sangam

A site-specific durational performance that invited the audience to sit, stand, wander and play as the performers negotiated multiple modes of orientation and disorientation, using projection, film, mirrors and movement.

Credits

Performers: Jane Chan and Shivaangee Agrawal

Visual Artist and Film: Tom Shennan 

Soundscape & Wider Team: Takeshi Matsumoto, Meera Patel, Jane Chan, Shivaangee Agrawal

With Special Thanks to: Dave, Ifty and Mo from Kala Sangam

Below is a video trailer of the work we have available to commission and/or tour.