Without Warning![]() Choreographer - Lizzi Kew Ross In collaboration with dancers & musicians Laura Moody, David Leahy, Lauren Potter Megan Saunders, Simon Wehrli Sonia Rafferty, Natasha Lohan Composer - Natasha Lohan Lighting Design - Fay Patterson Dramaturg - Mary Ann Hushlak Costume Designer- Susan Kulkarni Photographer- Peter Anderson |
Without Warning
Without Warning is a dance/performance piece devised with the company led by Lizzi Kew Ross,.
Without Warning is performed by four dancers and four musicians. The piece brings together movement, sound and scenography; each strand functioning as an equal, collaborative partner. The venue is the fourth partner. The piece can take place in any number of confined spaces. For the audience, confined in the space with the performers, not quite knowing the rules, there is visceral uncertainty. Inspiration for Without Warning came from Brian Keenan’s An Evil Cradling, his autobiographical account of four years as a hostage. That the hostages were shunted from hiding place to hiding place fed into a way of thinking about Without Warning performance sites as part of the greater life of this performance. Thus, each site links to a next, and, like memory, the movement and sound accumulate and evolve. Creative Team Choreographer - Lizzi Kew Ross Composer - Natasha Lohan Lighting Design - Fay Patterson Costume Design - Susan Kulkarni Dramaturg - Mary Ann Hushlak Without Warning offers a Residency Programme. Learn more here. PRESS REVIEWS at OLD VIC TUNNELS
The Stage: ‘a disturbing, ultimately humane work that leaves a haunting and indelible impression' Neil Norman Metro:' Kew Ross's exemplary cast, called upon to lug double basses about and belt out operatic tunes while engaged in hard core physical movement, work to draw us into the torment. Keep close to them, - it's a promenade performance- and on offer is a darkly poetic insight into the living nightmare of hostage incarceration' Keith Watson Vulgo: 'In the performance, mankind appeared bare, reduced to its most essential without being deprived from compassion. Involving the audience by the very fact that it became part of the scene, moving around with the performers in an estranged place, the spectatorial participation was heightened in this theatrical production in which emotions were clearly motivational forces able to direct body and mind.' Andrea Grunert
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Interview with Lizzi Kew RossBBC Radio 4 PM Programme January 2012Feedback |
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