Dance / Eve Stainton
The Mount Without hosts Eve Stainton’s ‘Impact Driver’, featuring movement, live sound and welding
Artist and choreographer Eve Stainton makes genre-blurring work that brings together a multitude of disciplines, including digital collage, movement, and welded steel.
Their practice celebrates the diversity of the gender-non-conforming lesbian and trans-masc experience, placed within a contemporary dance realm that is often dominated by white western identities.
Coming to The Mount Without on November 20 for two nights, their touring work, Impact Driver explores the construction and continuation of suspense, and how its presence “as a rumbling undercurrent” has “the potential to punctuate lesbian and trans-masc identities”.
Eve Stainton’s Impact Driver – photo: Brian Hartley
The work is especially noteworthy for its live welding, its four-strong creative ensemble – Tink Flaherty, Imani Mason Jordan, Romeo Roxman Gatt alongside Stainton – none of whom generally specialise in the dance realm, as well as for its live music, provided by musician and producer Leisha Thomas alongside Academy Award and Bafta-winning film composer Mica Levi.
“Welding is potent for me in so many ways,” reflects Stainton; “its strong alchemical presence, its extreme theatricality, its capacity for danger/excitement/drama/power/thrill, its sensuality, its brashness”.
Impact Driver is at The Mount Without on November 20-21 at 8pm, with audio description available on the second night. Tickets are available at www.headfirstbristol.co.uk. For more information, follow @evestainton and @themountwithout_events.
All photos: Brian Hartley
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