Glacier
NOW BOOKING FOR SPRING 2008
Glacier
A new 90 minute dance theatre production for six dancers choreographed and directed by Maresa von Stockert.
Glacier (working title) is a new evening long dance theatre piece. Emotionally charged and uniquely virtuosic, six outstanding performers will dance along the edge of melting glaciers and broken off ice floes.
Glacier will paint a glistening and sometimes disturbing picture of society reflected on an icy surface which is gradually thawing away, beautifully distorting the mirrored image.
Maresa von Stockert is known for telling dance theatre stories exposing the human anti-hero and society’s shortcomings. The new work will go a step further and look not only at the individual in society but also at society in its habitat - the social issue will be opened to an environmental one.
Dealing with the issues of global warming and environmental change in symbolical and metaphorical images, Glacier will be both a hauntingly beautiful as well as disturbing piece. Reflecting humanity’s deepest fears and struggles with, for and against nature, Glacier’s very contemporary subject matter will be communicated through a highly inventive and sensual movement language. Magical images will seduce our senses as well as provoke our thoughts, when for example iceberg walls come crushing down and the inhabitants of this fading Antarctica will be left stranded on tiny ice floes forced to unusual partnering work, which will turn into fights for survival the more of the icy surfaces break off. In von Stockert’s trademark style and in what promises to be her most poetic work to date, set and performers will metamorphose, inspiring and manipulating one another. The audience will be taken on a magical journey through a world of ice and snow in which suppressed feelings break through frozen planes, icicles turn into tears and icebergs come crushing down on ice princesses.
The show will open at the Mercury Theatre Colchester in January 2008 and then tours nationally until April 2008. London dates include LABAN and the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre.
Get-in: 2 days (including show day)
Technicians: 2 in-house technicians
Dimensions: ideal minimum: 9 x 9 metres performance area
Terms: Fee negotiable + travel and accommodation
Education: A full education programme accompanies the production.
For further information and booking please contact Fiona Mason
For a DVD of past work, national and international booking and information contact: Fiona Mason Tel: 00 44(0)1206 825600 email
For more company information please visit www.tilted.org.uk
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