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THURSDAY MAY 7, 6:30PM
Scáling
Event
An invitation to pay attention.
Working in real time, two performers with different bodies negotiate weight, time, proximity, and support. Akin to climbing, the material develops through continuous decision-making, where attention functions as material.
The work unfolds gradually through accumulation and sustained negotiation. Shifts in density and intensity emerge through the ongoing and constantly changing conditions of the encounter.
The piece forms an extended enquiry into how attention structures movement and perception in performance.
Charlie approaches choreographic practice as a space for perceptual enquiry — a way of testing what can be seen, sensed, and understood through the body. His work treats imagination as material, using performance to make visible forms of attention, relation, and experience that are not always immediately apparent. He established Wainsgate Dances as an artist-led site for choreographic enquiry.
Markéta has an artistic background in contemporary and traditional dance, puppet theatre and clowning. Her dance projects are characterised by intergenerational and multicultural collaboration. As a dance artist, she seeks ways to express and communicate her personal experience as a dancer with a different physicality.
Both Charlie and Markéta are engaged in movement as a site of enquiry, working with physical, perceptual, and imaginative processes. Charlie’s work focuses on attention and how shifts in focus shape perception. Markéta works closely with the specificities of her body as a dancer with one leg, using movement as a way of articulating lived experience. They both create work across diverse contexts, often outside traditional theatre spaces.
Conception, choreography, performance: Charlie Morrissey (the UK), Markéta Stránská (CZ)
Sound design: Charlie Morrissey
Sound recordings by: Matěj Kotouček (CZ); Music track "Everything's Gone Grey" by Taylor Deupree.
Set and light design: Charlie Morrissey and Markéta Stránská
Production and distribution: Srdcem zapsaný spolek, z. s. (CZ)
Co-production: Candoco Dance Company, Sadlers Wells, Wainsgate
Photography: Martin Albermann (DE), Camilla Greenwell (UK)
