EVENTS

URGE - NIGHT ON DELEVAN STREET - CULT

15th and 16th Apr 2005
Jean Abreu / Frauke Requardt / Hofesh Shechter
Urge / Nights on Delevan Street / Cult (Extended Version)
At The Place

Urge was a commission for The Place Prize 2004. A duet for two men, it explores the nature of instinctive, visceral compulsions and how they define us. Brazilian-born Jean Abreu is one of Britain’s rising dance talents. Drawing on his experience in contemporary, Latin American and martial art forms, his dancing marries sensuality with feline grace and razor-sharp agility. “Harmonious and airy… Abreu has a panther-like intensity” The Guardian.

‘I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world’ Walt Whitman. Delevan Street is not a light place. You should not go on your own after night has fallen. Still we keep visiting that place, only to long for it more afterwards. Frauke Requardt collaborates with composer and musician Jamie Craggs, plus a crew of performers, to produce this UK première. “… a gloriously intoxicated cabaret for the end of days” Ben Felsenburg.

Over the course of a whirlwind twelve months, The Place Prize 2004 ‘Audience Vote Special Prize’ winner Hofesh Shechter has burst onto the British dance scene as one of the creative choreographers to watch. In this new version of The Place Prize piece, he brings a refreshing vocabulary and expressively unique physical language to communicate the ambience of his unsettling worlds. “A hugely compelling mover…Shechter makes dances like someone holding onto the tail of a big, unruly beast” Donald Hutera.

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15th and 16th Apr 2005
Jean Abreu / Frauke Requardt / Hofesh Shechter
Urge / Nights on Delevan Street / Cult (Extended Version)
Robin Howard Dance Theatre at The Place
8:00 pm
£5 - £15

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