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Please Be Seated: New Movement Collective at the Southbank Centre

11 Nov 14 – 12 Nov 14, 7:45 PM – 9:45 PM

The eleven-strong New Movement Collective joins forces with minimalist furniture designer Jutta Friedichs in a world premiere of a darkly comic piece inspired by the architecture of small structures.

By CW Contributor on 22/9/2014

Please Be Seated: New Movement Collective at the Southbank Centre
Please Be Seated: New Movement Collective at the Southbank Centre
Please Be Seated: New Movement Collective at the Southbank Centre Please Be Seated: New Movement Collective at the Southbank Centre Ruth Mattock

Where the NMC’s acclaimed previous works have been immersive productions in unusual spaces, this new work explores more everyday structures resembling chairs and tables, and reveals the unexpected absurdity and theatricality of everyday shapes.


The award-winning dancers-choreographers of the Collective have a shared history of performing with some of the best British dance companies, including Rambert, Scottish Dance Theatre, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Russell Maliphant Company and the Royal Ballet.


Their 2013 Nest was an immersive and abstract retelling of Homer’s Odyssey across attics and scaffolds, which the Guardian called ‘An epic, powerfully distilled.’ The recently revived New Movement Collective Casting Traces took audiences through a paper maze of spaces, weaving shadow and film into the movement.


This collaboration between NMC and designer Friedichs is supported by a host of other artists, including video game score composer Ben Houge, installation designers JaneJaney and light artist Yaron Abulafia, whose lighting effects have patterned the stage for many contemporary dance companies.


The NMC’s signature combination of dance and architecture might seem unusual, but brings a surprising and captivating clarity to their ideas. Promising dark humour and innovation, expect expectations to be turned on their heads. 


by Ruth Mattock

What Please Be Seated: New Movement Collective at the Southbank Centre
Where Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX | MAP
Nearest tube Waterloo (underground)
When 11 Nov 14 – 12 Nov 14, 7:45 PM – 9:45 PM
Price £15
Website http://www.newmovement.org.uk/work/please-be-seated.html



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    New Movement Collective, Nest: Review

    “what Nest sacrifices in old-fashioned plotting, it richly compensates for in its drama of heightened senses and deliciously altered perspectives. An epic, powerfully distilled.”

    Judith Mackrell, The Guardian

     

    “The audience is led around the multi-layered building (a former Welsh chapel) to encounter strange dreamscapes where dancers hurl around metal towers as digital waves crackle overhead, cavort on black sand and fall sick with self-love in front of a giant mirror. The ambient soundscape mixes the sacred and profane.

    Liz Hoggard, The Evening Standard

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