Theatre / dance-theatre
Emergency Chorus bring award-winning dance-theatre work back to the stage
Award-winning Bristol-based artists Ben Kulvichit (he/him) and Clara Potter-Sweet (they/them) make experimental and multi-genre performance work under the name Emergency Chorus.
“Our ongoing preoccupations circle around states of crisis and emergency, the relationships between ecology, capitalism and technology, and ways of approaching and (re-)imagining the future”, they say.
“We make space for complexity, strangeness, playfulness, intimacy and ambiguity. Our performances often have a sense of being unresolved and open-ended; we think of the audience as ‘completing’ the work.”
Over the spring, they are on tour with their dance-theatre work Ways of Knowing – which calls at The Wardrobe Theatre for three nights from April 21.
Structured in two ‘mirror’ halves, the piece blends choreography, text and sound to explore what the duo call “a collage of methods for predicting the future”.
Ways of Knowing – photo: Emergency Chorus
The first part, All the barometers in the world, looks skywards at an anticipated storm, and the second, The Spelunkers, moves down below the ground.
“The work unfolds like a mysterious series of visions and omens”, the pair explain. “Behold! A council of leeches, a mystic hermit, a Victorian inventor, an economics conference, a dark and dripping cave.”
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Ways of Knowing is at The Wardrobe Theatre on April 21-23 at 7.30pm. Tickets are available at www.thewardrobetheatre.com.
All photos: Emergency Chorus
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