3rd March at Salisbury Arts Centre

See a selection of theatre works in progress. Emerging performance companies bring initial ideas and work in development to the White Room Studio to receive feedback from a real audience. Your thoughts and feelings about the work make a real difference to how these pieces move forward.

Get a free drink during the discussion with your ticket.

www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk

Saffy Setohy presents Towards Stillness

Choreographer/ performer: Saffy Setohy

Sound composition and video: Reynir Hutber

Costume: Rachel Maclachlan

Towards Stillness integrates sound, live surround video projection and structured improvisational dance to create an immersive installation. The audience experience the performance in the same space as the performance action, and are invited to witness, and become influential in, the emergent properties of the installation. A study on ideas around transformation and collectivity, the work provides an opportunity for audience and performer roles to become more fluid, a meditation on what it means to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.

Originally produced in 2009 by Dance Beyond Borders and Dancekiosk Hamburg, with funding from the European Commission and the Lisa Ullmann Travelling Fund.

Websites: www.saffysetohy.blogspot.com / w.reynirhutber.blogspot.com

NWTC - New World Transitional Collective presents Let’s Cycle to the Stars shall we?

Space specialists from NWTC - the New World Transitional Collective prepare you to join their search for a New World.

The audience enter the space craft and it is sealed.

A bicycle initially stands alone.

The audience work together to pedal the bicycle which enables take off.

The bicycle powers a light bulb, which creates projections on our space porthole through which we gaze, watching Earth become smaller and smaller as we propel ourselves further into space. It is like an antique Cinema, the light flickers according to the energy of the cyclist.

As we become lost in Space we hope to provoke questions of history, evolution and desire. By using a poetic narrative strung together through devised script, philosophy and installations.

Please check out photos of our process to give you a visual taste either; follow this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ-zwLVAuSw or search You Tube for ‘Let’s Cycle to the Stars Photos of Process 1’

Filskit Theatre presents The Living Canvas

Filskit Theatre invites you to join them on a journey through the private lives of four characters. Fleeting images appear and disappear offering a glimpse of true identity in a world of social masks. A violin morphs into a spider, a feather floats and teases out distant memories, and a secret love of...crumpets!

"The Living Canvas" follows a multi-stranded, non-linear journey through the fragments and episodes that build the identities of four individuals. In this piece the company combines physical theatre, original songs and the innovative use of pocket projectors in order to develop a unique style of visual storytelling. “The Living Canvas” form part of the company’s larger investigation into the interaction between the live performer and recorded image. It is this work that is integral to all our work and the basis of our performances and development.

“The Living Canvas” forms part of the company’s larger investigation into the interaction between the live performer and recorded image. It is this work that is integral to all our work and the basis of our performances and development.

"They used a technique I have never seen before... pocket projection... onto walls, people and backing sheets. This innovative technique sets this company apart from so many others out there." Skye Crawford, London Fringe Review, 2009.

http://www.filskittheatre.com

Sketty Productions presents Tom’s

A devised piece that fuses text, movement  and puppetry to tell the true story of Tom; a young man who, as a result of a life-altering snowboard accident, completely lost the use of his entire body from the neck down but wholly retained and now thrives on the love and devotion of his partner, Ellen.

"Constant - constant heavy feeling on my bones. Constant pins and needles scratching at my skin. I suppose losing my privacy, my gravity. Most of my independence. Missing the sensation of carving my board through powdered snow. (Beat) But I still take loads more than I've had taken. I mean I can still hear music even though my body won't move to it. I'll be able to smell the shampoo in my child's hair and feel his face on mine even if I won't get to hold him in like other dads will hold theirs. And I'll always see. See that my world, and the best person in it, hasn't changed like I have. But is still the same. Exactly the same."

As a company, we have produced two successful plays. Imogen, our debut show toured the UK throughout 2006 and featured at venues such as the Bristol Old Vic Studio, The Ustinov Studio Bath and The Croydon Warehouse, London. Our follow-up show, Feral was developed at the National Theatre Studio and then in collaboration with the Battersea Arts Centre. It was staged at the New Wimbledon Studio in November 2009. Both shows were critically-acclaimed and employed a strong fusion of movement, text and puppetry. 

Sketty has created an infinitely touching piece, quite beautifully performed. Serena Davies, Telegraph

www.skettyproductions.co.uk