NOW 20 | WEEK 2

28 Jan - 01 Feb 2020

ULTIMATE DANCER

Lite Metle // 7.30pm

If you want to know how light metal is, then listen carefully.

Total Theatre & The Place Award for Dance 2019 nominee Ultimate Dancer uses uncanny sounds, songs and recycled dances to skew reality in mystical directions, creating new worlds.

A computer can become an opera singer, can become Greta Thunberg, can become dogs biting sour trees, can become the change, can become a forever winter solstice, can become bitcoins, can become vantablack, can become romance, can go up in flames, can become a clotted blood frog, can be eaten alive and can be a complete state of mind.

Make the heaviest world light again.

Commissioned by The Yard Theatre. Supported through The Work Room’s Residency programme.

JULIE CUNNINGHAM

fire bird // 9pm

fire bird is a queer and personal interpretation of the iconic Stravinsky musical score written and first performed over 100 years ago.

Firefighting. Fighting to stay alive. Fighting to keep going. Fighting failure.

Award-winning dance artist Julie Cunningham has worked with choreographers Merce Cunningham Company, Michael Clark and Boris Charmatz, amongst others. In 2014 Julie was awarded “Outstanding Modern Performance” at the Critics Circle National Dance Awards for ‘New Work’ with Michael Clark Company. Julie was nominated for the “Emerging Artist Award for Choreography” in 2016. They founded Julie Cunningham & Company Dance in 2017 with the aim of finding new movement vocabularies, addressing questions of gender identity and challenging gender roles.

Commissioned by The Yard Theatre.

ACCESS

Access tickets are priced at £17 and can be booked online. We offer free tickets for companions and these must be booked over the phone (020 3111 0570) or by emailing marketing@theyardtheatre.co.uk

TICKETS + WAYS TO SAVE

Double bill tickets are priced at £20 / £17 concessions. If you buy tickets for two or more double bills, then you get 20% off every ticket. And if you buy a festival pass, you can see every double bill in NOW for £60 (that’s £6 per show).

Locals can get 30% off all tickets (and 10% off at the bar) with a free Yard Local Card – sign up online.

U26s can get £5 tickets on the door to all performances that are not sold out with #NoEmptySeats.

NOW Lates: Misery

Alongside these shows, we have a feast of diverse late-night music and events in NOW Lates every Thursday to keep you dancing til the early hours.

About Ultimate Dancer

Louise Ahl is a Glasgow-based artist originally from Sweden, making experimental and choreographic performance work. She creates both solo and collaborative multi-art-form pieces under the name of Ultimate Dancer.

Louise makes art around the metaphysical and mystical, using movement, voice, light, sonics and language. Her work has shown across the UK (including, but not limited to Southbank Centre and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art), Ireland, Germany, France, USA and Australia and has been supported through Creative Scotland, Arts Council England and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Her pieces have been commissioned by Dance4 (‘Intercourse’), Edinburgh Art Festival (‘Edelweiss, Edelweiss…’), Tramway (‘Holy Smoke’) and a co-commission by Tramway and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (‘Hevi Metle’). Louise was a New Associated Artist at Yorkshire Dance in 2012, a Tramway Associated Artist in 2015/16 and a 2017/18 recipient of the Starter Artist award through the National Theatre of Scotland.

www.louiseahl.com

Twitter: @Ultimate_Dancer
Instagram: ultimatedancer666
Facebook: UltimateDancer

About Julie Cunningham

Julie Cunningham has worked professionally as a dancer for fifteen years. After training at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London, they worked with Ballett der Stadt Theater Koblenz, Germany, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and Michael Clark Company, and in projects with Boris Chartmatz, Thick & Tight, and with poet, Anne Carson.

Julie is a guest teacher at Trinity Laban and Zurich University of the Arts.

In 2014 Julie was awarded “Outstanding Modern Performance” at the Critics Circle National Dance Awards for ‘New Work’ with Michael Clark Company. Julie was nominated for the emerging artist award for choreography in 2016.

Julie was the inaugural Leverhulme Choreography Fellow at Rambert and was part of the dance artist/curator mentorship program through Siobhan Davies Dance. In 2018 Julie became a New Wave Associate of Sadlers Wells, and associate artist of Dance East.

Julie Cunningham & Company was launched in 2017 at the Barbican and became associate company of Rambert in 2018.

www.juliecunninghamandcompany.co.uk

@j_middlec
@juliecunninghamandcompany