Habitual Welders [Click to open film]
Choreography: Jan De Schynkel

Cutting edge yet accessible; a thought-provoking piece with a constantly increasing trance-like pace. Under the highly technical, dynamic and challenging movement vocabulary lies a collage of interlocking traces of relationships, offering lyrical images of tenderness alternating with violent disruptions.

Just as welding in a figurative sense means to form a harmonious or effective whole and literally it means to unite by softening, I have tried to find a choreographic system in the piece to put aggregates of relationships together.

The piece allows space for the audience to contribute their own individual thoughts to movements and structure, in parts influenced by the Organum style of Perotin's medieval music - which also inspired many minimalist composers such as Steve Reich. This lyrical piece offers steady direction which underlies a kaleidoscope of shifting textures.

Music: Downland, Perotin, Michael Gordon, Gavin Bryers, David Lang

Social Disease [Click to open film]
Choreography: Gary Clarke

Social Disease is a slick and stylish piece of work based around the paradox of self image, self loathing and becoming a super star. The piece dives head first into some of Warhol's most personal works including the hard hitting and darkly provocative collection: The Disaster Paintings. Set to a glamour-rock soundtrack by The Velvet Underground, a company of 4 women step out of 'Andy's wardrobe, to present a series of shocking and painfully truthful images.