Motionhouse Dance Theatre - Underground

Under the strong direction of Kevin Finnan and Louise Richards Motionhouse have led the way for UK dance companies to develop successful work for outdoor festivals.

Underground is a new piece for 2008 inspired by the experience of train and tube travel. Performed by 4 dancers within a rotating, rocking tubular structure Underground uses stunningly physical dance, poignant imagery and surprising aerial encounters to explore the new reality of train travel: the compressed intimacy of a crowded carriage; the stranger asleep on your shoulder; the crush of personal space; the studied ignoring of our fellow humans and the tight fear of a dangerous stranger in the current climate of suspicion.

A sleeping reader is assailed by the dark foes from fiction as a graffiti artist paints his love in motion. Suspended the add angles and riding the rhythm of the train, 4 characters are constantly thrown together then torn apart.

A Without Walls Commission

Appearing at:
Brighton Festival
X.trax Feasts Festival Manchester
Winchester Hat Fair
Stockton International Riverside Festival
The Bristol Do
Greenwich and Docklands Festival

www.motionhouse.co.uk