New digital programme launched as part of Protein 21 celebrations
Luca Silvestrini and Graham Watts in conversation: Wednesday 10 June, 6.30pm, Facebook Live
LOL (Lots of Love) broadcast: from Thursday 25 June, 7pm. Monthly broadcasts thereafter
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The season launches on Wednesday 10 June with a live streamed conversation between Luca Silvestrini and Graham Watts OBE, Chair of the Dance section of the Critics’ Circle. The interview, part of the Reflect strand of Protein 21, will be streamed on Facebook Live and will be available afterwards on the company’s new website.
Speaking about the interview, Graham Watts said “Luca’s unique brand of dance theatre, mixing humour with heavy-hitting themes, has been at the cutting edge of contemporary dance for the past two decades and it's going to be enormous fun finding out what has made his creative force so potent”
Following on the success of Border Tales as part of The Place Online season in May, on 25 June, DanceEast and The Place will stream Protein’s hugely popular, award winning, LOL (Lots of Love) as part the Protein 21 Remix Series. First performed in 2011, LOL provided commentary on the then emerging online society and its language and etiquette. It has since toured extensively in the UK and internationally to critical acclaim. Thereafter, Protein will broadcast a show a month in partnership with venues around the UK and abroad, including 2008’s Dear Body in July and a rare chance to see some of the company’s earlier works in the summer and autumn including Silvestrini’s works for HeadSpaceDance. Each show will be available to watch for one weekend only on the company’s website. All artists involved in the filmed performance will receive royalties for the broadcasts.
A new dance film, The Sun Inside is currently being created by Protein’s Luca Silvestrini, filmmaker Roswitha Chesher and composer Andy Pink, alongside volunteer contributors from around the world who have shared their reflections on sun inside their homes. The film is part of the Protein 21 Reimagine series and takes inspiration from a film made by Protein and Roswitha Chesher in 2008 during a residency at Evelina Children’s Hospital. The new work is expected to be released during summer 2020.
Protein’s ongoing professional development training, Embrace, will also continue digitally and the forthcoming one will focus on mental health in the performing arts.
Speaking about this new digital programme, Luca Silvestrini said: ‘It’s a very special time at Protein and we live in a very special time. Today, more than ever, art, culture have a fundamental role to play in reminding us all of our innate creativity as human beings. This digital phase is intended as a positive, forward-thinking response to the current restrictions and we are delighted to reach out and continue to connect with our people and beyond. Thanks to all the performers, collaborators, promoters and friends for their help in reimagining, reflecting and remixing our history into the future.’
Since its first production 21 years ago, Protein has cemented its reputation as one of Britain’s most distinctive dance companies, blending bold and clever choreography with a great sense of humour while connecting theatrical experiences with timely and relevant issues. The company’s 21st anniversary celebrations draw on Luca’s choreographic practice and Protein’s belief that dance is for everyone. At the centre of the celebrations is Protein 21, a programme designed to Remix, Reflect on and Reimagine the company’s work.
Listings Information – Protein 21 Remix Series
All shows can be viewed at www.proteindance.co.uk
LOL (Lots of Love) with DanceEast and The Place Online from Thursday 25 June, 7pm
Luca Silvestrini’s critically-acclaimed show, created in 2010, enters the lives of a group of six people trapped in their webs of aspirations, desires and self-broadcasting. Reflecting their inability to free themselves from their online personae, the characters narrate their busy and intricate electronic lives as their physical interaction becomes progressively more awkward and out of control.
Against a video wall of screen-gazing individuals, the cyber souls stylishly nail the language of life online in their quest for romance. Talking and dancing at speed, they tackle the baffling etiquette of electronic discourse, make hilarious straight-to-the audience confessions, and dance the physical equivalent of tagging and tweeting. With video animation by Rachel Davies and original music by Andy Pink, these ingredients conjure a razor-sharp commentary on our social media society, and an affecting rendering of human need. The film is a Hibrow production courtesy of One Media IP. Running Time: 70 minutes
Dear Body with Lakeside Arts from Thursday 9 July 7pm
A witty satire on fixation with body image and body care, Dear Body considers that most private dialogue of all, the one we have with ourselves. Dear Body explores the great lengths to which men and women will go to achieve physical perfection. On a set by Fabrice Serafino, somewhere between a gym and a spa, with video, graphics and a specially commissioned score by David Coulter, this full-length work explores both the aspirations and the nightmares of the keep-fit fanatic. With distinctive animation by award-winning film-maker Rachel Davies, Dear Body is played out by six company dancers and an ensemble cast of participants drawn from across the local community. Running Time: 70 minutes
Double Bill: B for Body / To The Bone August (date tbc)A double bill of shorter works including B for Body, which follows the aspirations and nightmares of a woman’s quest for beauty and ultimate happiness. Helped and scrutinized with surgical accuracy by two men, she soon realizes the addictive side of her journey. Combining intricate movement vocabulary, insightful text and dark humour, B for Body was a finalist at The Place Prize 2006, winning the audience vote.
To the Bone, originally created for DanceXchange’s in the round company Bare Bones in 2005, reveals struggles and rituals of a couple in what it looks like a domestic environment. Through the soundtrack, we hear their real feelings and desires, and we get to understand what they really think of each other. Wearing only underwear and carried in and out of the performance space as mannequins, the performers seem to invite you into their bedroom and put their uncertainties and intimate battles on display.
Running time: 20 minutes/15 minutes
Running time: 20 minutes/15 minutes
Double Bill: Ride / Stairworks with Pavilion Dance South West September (date tbc)A double bill of Protein’s site responsive shorter works created and performed at London’s iconic Wapping Power Station. Made in 2008, Ride looks at the English season and by extension, the English class system in a piece on the relationship between an Ascot lady and the subject of her fantasies, a jockey. Stairworks is a fantasy world of bare torsos, meat and steam, made during the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease in 2003, mixing news coverage with Vivaldi’s music and images of young men wearing small bath towels.
Running Time: 9 minutes / 10 minutes
Running Time: 9 minutes / 10 minutes
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