A Take Me Somewhere Co-Commission
EVE STAINTON
(UK)
IMPACT DRIVER
THU 26 OCTOBER 2023 19:00 - 20:00
£15 - £10 (Concessions)
Tramway (Directions)
What To Expect: This performance contains partial nudity, strobe, loud live sound and live welding. Welding curtains are used during the performance, which allow you to safely watch the welding with no additional eye protection. Age limit: 14+ (nudity)
ACCESS: AD | SP (Festival Access Page).
Live audio description is available & delivered by Soudscribe. Please email molly@takemesomewhere.co.uk to reserve your headset which can be collected from the box office. Subpacs will be available at the box office.
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A Touch Tour is available in the space at 18:00. Please gather at Tramway box office & book your slot by emailing molly@takemesomewhere.co.uk.
Artist and performance maker Eve Stainton releases their new choreographic commission, Impact Driver. Featuring live welding, movement, and live sound, scored by Leisha Thomas and Mica Levi. Impact Driver is interested in methodologies for constructing thriller-like suspense. How suspense can be sustained as the main event, in the absence of a climax or traditional resolution. Borrowing the logic from a welding workshop, Stainton foregrounds activities that require live negotiation and decision making; making visible how scenes and objects take their shape, and continue to move through meanings. Atmospheres, garments, feelings and materials, generative and in tension. Working with time-based notions of being ‘caught in the act’ and ‘on tenter hooks’, Stainton explores how suspense as a rumbling undercurrent has the potential to punctuate lesbian and trans-masc identities. Haunting, time stretching, absurdist.
‘Welding is potent for me in so many ways- its strong alchemical presence, its extreme theatricality, its capacity for danger/excitement/drama/power/thrill, its sensuality, its brashness.’ - Eve Stainton. Featuring an ensemble from different creative backgrounds who don’t usually work in the field of dance, this research continues Stainton’s work in celebrating the gender non-conforming lesbian and trans-masc experience, of which there are many, and what foregrounding these identities means to the white western Contemporary Dance canon.
Eve Stainton is an artist interested in the politics of uncodeable queer presence and its intersections with race and class. They create multi-disciplinary performance worlds that hold movement practices, digital collage, and welded steel, and other invisible forces like waves, imagination and drama. These forms work together to create live ecologies that are discordant, multi-layered and psychedelic. Stainton is interested in the production of conflicting states and textures to unravel essentialist thinking, with intent to create more expansive understandings of the lesbian identity, non-gender/variance, and perceptions of the ‘real’. Notable presentations include: New commission ‘Dykegeist’ for ICA (2021), Close Encounters Copenhagen, curated by Cedric Fauq (2021), Venice Biennale performance programme with Florence Peake (2019), Block Universe (UK), The Place (UK), Nottingham Contemporary (UK), Crac Occitanie (FR), Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis (UK), La Becque (SE), LCMF (UK), CCA Glasgow (UK), Tangente (CA). Features include AQNB, FACT Mag, Dazed Beauty, Twin Magazine, Art in America, This is Tomorrow. Work for other artists include Anthea Hamilton, Tai Shani, Last Yearz Interesting Negro, Sonia Boyce, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Holly Blakey, Goldfrapp, Compagnie ECO international tour, Vivienne Westwood, Claire Barrow, Art School, Molly Goddard, walking for London/Shanghai/Paris Fashion Weeks
Show Credits:
Concept and Choreography: Eve Stainton
Performance: Tink Flaherty, Romeo Roxman Gatt, Imani Mason Jordan, Mica Levi, Eve Stainton & Leisha Thomas
Sound World: Leisha Thomas & Mica Levi
Producer: Michael Kitchin
Set Design and Fabrication: H S Design Studios
Production Manager: Helen Mugridge
Lighting Designer: Charlie Hope
Costume Designer: Ella Boucht
Welding Manager: Hester Moriarty Thompson
Dramaturgical Support: Liz Rosenfeld & Jamila Johnson-Small
Artist Care Person: Seyi Adelekun and Madinah Farhannah Thompson
Choreographic Support: Florence Peake
3D Typography: Bora AKA Pauline Canavesio
Audio Description: Shivaangee Agrawal and Elaine Lillian Joseph from SoundScribe
Access Dramaturg and Embodied Writer: Kat Bailed
Access Support Worker: Andrew Mitchelson
Audio Description equipment provided in-kind by Citizens Theatre.
Production credits: Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Take Me Somewhere, Wysing Arts Centre and Dansehallerne. Supported by Bergen Kunsthall and Wainsgate. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. With thanks to Phyllida Barlow Studio for steel donation
Photos: Photography by Anne Tetzlaff, Logo by BORA aka Pauline Canavesio, digitally collaged by Eve Stainton