Dance Theatre Performance- 75 mins.
Choreography Beatrice Allegranti in collaboration with dancers Luke Birch, Maria Palliani, Takeshi Matsumoto, Aneta Zwierzynska, Rudzani Moleya
Soundscore Jill Halstead
Lighting Design Jackie Shemesh
The piece explores the ebb and flow of relational intimacies, of moving kinship, interweaving personal, social and medical accounts of loss, rupture and embodied resistance. Entangled movement and sound materials emerge through a collaborative focus on embodiment as a methodology, where tactile kinesthetic processes are central to the lived experience of listening and interacting. The movement and sound worlds for the work are grown in the liminal space between music and movement, choreography and composition, and what sound may embody and how embodiment sounds.
The production is grounded in the autobiographical experiences of people’s diverse relationships. The work emerges directly from the Moving Kinship hubs with families affected by young onset dementia. In probing the complexities of dementia, this dance theatre production tackles social and medical taboos about loss, intimacy, vulnerability, consent and othering – inviting audiences to re-imagine everyday relating as small acts of embodied resistance.
Informed by ongoing feminist research, the work considers that dementia-friendly values are ubiquitous and can enrich our perceptions and relating in human and more-than-human ways. Since the work-in-progress tour to 11 venues during 2017-18 (UK, Norway, The Netherlands), and now a production upscale, the work has spanned the deaths of three parents in the artistic team, and a pandemic.
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Beatrice Allegranti Company
I´ve Lost You Only To Discover That I Have Gone Missing,
Also supported by Arts Council England.