2021/22 PROGRAMME: MYTHS & DREAMS
We are delighted to return to the stage with Myths & Dreams, an ambitious and innovative programme created by four choreographers: Fertile Ground Artistic Directors Renaud Wiser and Malgorzata Dzierzon and guest artists Fabritia D'Intino and Clémentine Vanlerberghe. The Company’s new season brings together collaborators from the fields of dance, film and digital sculpture in an imaginative evening performed by the cast of top North East emerging professional dancers.
Touring across the region and beyond they will present Somnium which has captured dreams at the time of pandemic, the hypnotic Plubel and Labyrinth, freely inspired by the myth of the Minotaur.
If you saw the show on tour, we’d love to know what you thought. Please take two minutes to answer this short survey. We'd really appreciate it.
"Sound and images, gesture and movement are hypnotic, uneasy, recreating the kind of disturbed surreality of anxiety-induced dreams which I suspect many of us experienced over those fifteen months when our lives – and minds – were turned upside down."
British Theatre Guide Myths & Dreams Review
"Myths & Dreams is a wonderful collective of individual, micro, artistic decisions and dance steps combining to make one interesting big idea. Wow."
Age suitability: 8+
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Myths & Dreams Trailer filmed and edited and with credit to Laurent Liotardo @balletandphotos
TOUR DATES
Dance City, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thursday 14 October 2021, 7.30pm
Visual & Performing Arts Academy, Sunderland
Thursday 21 October 2021, 7pm
The Maltings, Berwick-upon-Tweed
Friday 29 October 2021, 7pm
Gosforth Civic Theatre
Friday 6 May 2022, 7.30pm
Wednesday 19 October 2022, 8pm
Malgorzata Dzierzon brings to the stage her new dance film Somnium. Conceived and created in the period of extended confinement during the pandemic, Somnium wants to capture and express our dreams, memories, anxieties and desires at the time of change. Somnium is a collaboration with filmmaker Filipe Alcada, composer Oliver Coates and lighting designer Christopher Swain and is a Dance City 2021/22 Commission.
Credits
Title: Somnium
Concept: Małgorzata Dzierżon
Choreography: Małgorzata Dzierżon in collaboration with dancers
Performed by: Esmée Halliday, Ellie Marsh, Lila Naruse, Beth Veitch
Film director: Filipe Alcada
Music: Oliver Coates
Lighting Design: Christopher Swain
Director of Photography: Fabio Calascibetta
Editing and grading: Filipe Alcada John Antony Thadicaran
Trailer and photography: Filipe Alcada
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From a duo of rising European choreographers Fabritia D'Intino and Clémentine Vanlerberghe, Fertile Ground brings to Dance City Plubel. In this hypnotic journey of imitation, the two women explore chorality as an act of resistance and a tool to reveal what has been made hidden. From the mass, the group, each female figure is extracted to reveal its individuality as a possible attempt of emancipation. Plubel has toured extensively across Europe and was featured as part of choreographic competition Danse Élargie at the Theatre de La Ville (Paris) and the Danse Élargie Suite programme at Sadlers Wells (London). This year it is coming to Dance City as part of Fertile Ground’s Myths & Dreams programme.
Credits
Title: Plubel
Choreography: Fabritia D’Intino & Clémentine Vanlerberghe
Performed by: Esmée Halliday, Ellie Marsh, Lila Naruse, Beth Veitch
Music: Federico Scettri
Lighting Design: Violaine Burgard with Pierre Staigre
Photography: Hubert Helleu
Labyrinth, a cross-disciplinary work by Renaud Wiser, freely inspired by the myth of the Minotaur. In contrast with the classical narrative, in Labyrinth the Minotaur is portrayed as a symbol of hybridity representing the complexities of modern times. In our creative process, the dancers are immersed in a virtual environment created by sculptor Marie Lelouche and develop choreography in response to her sculptures. On stage, the performers' movement reveals this virtual maze brought to life by projections and a haunting sound design.
Dance City and Visual & Performing Arts Academy at Sunderland College
Labyrinth Virtual Reality Experience
Immerse yourself in the virtual reality maze created by Marie Lelouche and navigate the virtual landscape of Labyrinth's hauntingly beautiful digital sculptures. Places are limited and free to ticket holders.
Dance City - Thursday 14 October, 6-7.20pm and in the interval. To book your place email ad@fertileground.org.uk by 5pm on Wednesday 13 October.
Visual & Performing Arts Academy, Sunderland College - Thursday 21 October, 5.30pm-6.50pm and in the interval. To book your place email ad@fertileground.org.uk by 5pm on Wednesday 20 October.
Credits:
Title: Labyrinth
Choreography: Renaud Wiser in collaboration with dancers
Performed by: Esmée Halliday, Ellie Marsh, Lila Naruse, Beth Veitch
Sculptor and Designer: Marie Lelouche
Creative Technologist: Florent Berthaut
Music: TBC
Lighting Design: Christopher Swain
