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THURSDAY 11 - SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2021, 7:30PMPERFORMANCE I
Detective Work is a new duet, choreographed by Seke Chimutengwende in collaboration with Stephanie McMann, which explores choreography as a process of creating and solving mysteries.
The performance is a web of fragmented scenes and dances that occur and reoccur in ever-changing permutations. Working in counterpoint to one another, the performers come at the material from every angle, rearranging the evidence in different configurations.
Detective Work channels the relationship between mystery and multiplicity – the sense that there are many possible outcomes to any single process. Shifting between the absurd, the melancholic and the uncanny, the show invites us into a place of constant questioning that ultimately feels hopeful. In this moment of great uncertainty, Detective Work looks to mystery as an antidote to despair.
CREDITS
Choreography: Seke Chimutengwende, in collaboration with Stephanie McMann
Performance: Seke Chimutengwende & Stephanie McMann
Lighting Designer: Jackie Shemesh
Costume Designer: Annie Pender
Composer: Jamie McCarthy
Rehearsal Director: Helena Webb
Dramaturg: Charlie Ashwell
Commissioned by NEUROLIVE
Full programme
Visit the booking page on the Siobhan Davies Studios website.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Seke Chimutengwende
Seke is a choreographer, performer, movement director and teacher. Seke studied dance at Lewisham College 1999 – 2001 and London Contemporary Dance School 2001 – 2004. He has performed for companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre and Lost Dog and has performed solo and group improvisations internationally since 2006. His choreographies include The Time Travel Piece (runner-up Place Prize 2012) and Black Holes, a collaboration with Alexandrina Hemsley (British Council’s Edinburgh Showcase 2019). Seke is currently researching a new group choreography looking at ghosts and haunted houses as metaphors for how histories of slavery and colonialism haunt the present. Since 2018, Seke has worked as a movement director for theatre productions at The Yard Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre and The Gate Theatre. Seke teaches improvisation and choreography at London Contemporary Dance School and The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance.
Stephanie McMann
Steph is a dancer, movement and rehearsal director from London. She works as a performer with makers including Roberta Jean, Theo Clinkard, Lucy Suggate, Oona Doherty, Laura Dannequin, Dan Canham, Janine Harrington, Damien Jalet, Hussein Chalayan, Jamila Johnson-Small amongst others and most recently performed with Jamie xx at All Points East festival, London. Steph’s TV and film work includes His Dark Materials (2019/20) GoT (prequel, 2019) World War Z (2013), assisting Alex Reynolds and Suspiria (2018) with Damien Jalet. She is a past Sadler’s Wells Summer University artist and a movement & rehearsal director for dance, film, theatre and circus, including Liz Aggis and Acrojou. She has worked with Scottish Dance Theatre as Rehearsal Director (maternity cover from Nov 19-Feb 20) and Movement Director (cover) for the film Louis Wain (2020) and upcoming projects during 2021/22. Steph is dancer/co-artistic director of Nora with Eleanor Sikorski & Flora Wellesley Wesley, with their last commissions include work by Deborah Hay and Eleanor Bauer.
Reviews of Detective Work:
-Exeunt Magazine
-Smaller Temples
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Images from Detective Work performed at Siobhan Davies Studios, November 2021.
Photos by Hugo Glendinning. Detective Work trailer video by Eleanor Sikorski.
PERFORMANCE I
DETECTIVE WORK
Detective Work is a new duet, choreographed by Seke Chimutengwende in collaboration with Stephanie McMann, which explores choreography as a process of creating and solving mysteries.
The performance is a web of fragmented scenes and dances that occur and reoccur in ever-changing permutations. Working in counterpoint to one another, the performers come at the material from every angle, rearranging the evidence in different configurations.
Detective Work channels the relationship between mystery and multiplicity – the sense that there are many possible outcomes to any single process. Shifting between the absurd, the melancholic and the uncanny, the show invites us into a place of constant questioning that ultimately feels hopeful. In this moment of great uncertainty, Detective Work looks to mystery as an antidote to despair.
CREDITS
Choreography: Seke Chimutengwende, in collaboration with Stephanie McMann
Performance: Seke Chimutengwende & Stephanie McMann
Lighting Designer: Jackie Shemesh
Costume Designer: Annie Pender
Composer: Jamie McCarthy
Rehearsal Director: Helena Webb
Dramaturg: Charlie Ashwell
Commissioned by NEUROLIVE
Full programme
Visit the booking page on the Siobhan Davies Studios website.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Seke Chimutengwende
Seke is a choreographer, performer, movement director and teacher. Seke studied dance at Lewisham College 1999 – 2001 and London Contemporary Dance School 2001 – 2004. He has performed for companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre and Lost Dog and has performed solo and group improvisations internationally since 2006. His choreographies include The Time Travel Piece (runner-up Place Prize 2012) and Black Holes, a collaboration with Alexandrina Hemsley (British Council’s Edinburgh Showcase 2019). Seke is currently researching a new group choreography looking at ghosts and haunted houses as metaphors for how histories of slavery and colonialism haunt the present. Since 2018, Seke has worked as a movement director for theatre productions at The Yard Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre and The Gate Theatre. Seke teaches improvisation and choreography at London Contemporary Dance School and The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance.
Stephanie McMann
Steph is a dancer, movement and rehearsal director from London. She works as a performer with makers including Roberta Jean, Theo Clinkard, Lucy Suggate, Oona Doherty, Laura Dannequin, Dan Canham, Janine Harrington, Damien Jalet, Hussein Chalayan, Jamila Johnson-Small amongst others and most recently performed with Jamie xx at All Points East festival, London. Steph’s TV and film work includes His Dark Materials (2019/20) GoT (prequel, 2019) World War Z (2013), assisting Alex Reynolds and Suspiria (2018) with Damien Jalet. She is a past Sadler’s Wells Summer University artist and a movement & rehearsal director for dance, film, theatre and circus, including Liz Aggis and Acrojou. She has worked with Scottish Dance Theatre as Rehearsal Director (maternity cover from Nov 19-Feb 20) and Movement Director (cover) for the film Louis Wain (2020) and upcoming projects during 2021/22. Steph is dancer/co-artistic director of Nora with Eleanor Sikorski & Flora Wellesley Wesley, with their last commissions include work by Deborah Hay and Eleanor Bauer.
Reviews of Detective Work:
-Exeunt Magazine
-Smaller Temples
Images from Detective Work performed at Siobhan Davies Studios, November 2021.
Photos by Hugo Glendinning. Detective Work trailer video by Eleanor Sikorski.
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