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Welcome to Collapse – A Period Drama.The latest production from New Movement Collective and ScanLAB Projects with music by Oliver Coates.

Collapse is a promenade performance, please look out for and listen carefully to instructions.

We hope you enjoy the show.

C H O R E O G R A P H Y , C O N C E P T + P E R F O R M A N C E

N E W M O V E M E N T C O L L E C T I V E

S C U L P T U R E , D E S I G N + F I L MS C A N L A B P R O J E C T S

C O M P O S E R + C E L L OO L I V E R C O A T E S

L I G H T I N G D E S I G NZ E Y N E P K E P E K L I

N E W M O V E M E N T C O L L E C T I V EP E R F O R M E R S

C L E M M I E S V E A A SP A T R I C I A O K E N W A

A L E X A N D E R W H I T L E YJ O N A T H A N G O D D A R D

J O E W A L K L I N GR E N A U D W I S E R

S C A N L A B P R O J E C T SM A T T H E W S H A W

W I L L I A M T R O S S E L LT H O M A S P E A R C ET H O M A S P A R K E R

D A N P O P ES O M A S A T O

P R O D U C E R ( N M C )M A L G O R Z A T A D Z I E R Z O N

P R O D U C T I O N M A N A G E RZ E Y N E P K E P E K L I

M U S E U M P L I N T H S E C K F O R D C H O N G

D R A M A T U R G YC A R O L I N E W I L L I A M S

V O I C E O V E R A R T I S TP E N N Y L A Y D E N

C H O R E O G R A P H I C C O N T R I B U T I O NE S T E L A M E R L O SH A N N A H K I D DG E M M A N I X O N

M A L G O R Z A T A D Z I E R Z O NR O B I N G L A D W I N

C R E A T I V E T E A M

N E W M O V E M E N T C O L L E C T I V E C H O R E O G R A P H Y , C O N C E P T + P E R F O R M A N C E

NMC is a generation of dance artists collectively redefining the boundaries of choreography and performance through ambitious, cross-disciplinary work. With a long collaborative working history as creators and performers we have rapidly established a reputation for innovation, producing work that challenges theatrical orthodoxies and creatively responds to unconventional performance settings.

NMC consists of 11 artists working without a lead creative director. Together we have created a laboratory from which we can develop innovative, large-scale work that responds to our rapidly changing modern world and pushes our art form forward. We strongly believe that our unique working model unlocks new possibilities for dance and collaborative arts practices.

At the heart of this approach, lies an ongoing reconsideration of the relationship between performer and spectator, acknowledging that both are active partners in performance. Placing the two alongside each other in the same arena, we invite a close encounter with dance, stimulating the senses and activating the imagination. This powerfully immediate experience of movement, sound and other media encourages curiosity and compels action, and in doing so, expands the possibilities of where choreography is manifested.

Through each new production and our growing network of collaborators across numerous art forms, NMC aims to re-evaluate the position of dance in performance and what the experience of movement can be.

Our aim is to change the parameters of our art form. This is what we invite you to be part of.

S C A N L A B P R O J E C T S S C U L P T U R E , D E S I G N + F I L M

ScanLAB Projects is an award winning creative studio experimenting with the potentials of large scale 3D scanning.

The practice explore the world through the eyes of this post-lenticular technology, creating animations, images, objects and installations in response to the data they capture. Their work is exhibited, broadcast and published internationally.

Recent projects include Post-lenticular Landscapes at LACMA (Los Angeles), Horizontal Humans at The Photographers’s Gallery (London), The Dreamlife of Driverless Cars for the New York Times and Pompeii - New secrets Revealed for BBC ONE.

O L I V E R C O A T E S C O M P O S E R

Oliver Coates is a cellist, composer and producer based in London.

In the past year he has performed solo shows in China, Russia, Brazil, Egypt and Australia, and made his New York debut at Le Poisson Rouge. He was the winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award and is an Artist in Residence at the Southbank Centre.

He has released records on Prah Recordings and Slip, and collaborates with the London Contemporary Orchestra, Jonny Greenwood (on The Master and There Will Be Blood), Mica Levi (on Under the Skin) and the visual artist Lawrence Lek (on the award-winning video piece Unreal Estate). With Lek, he has recently presented the world premiere of a new work, QE3, at Glasgow International.

His new LP, Upstepping, was released on Prah in May, and he has programmed the Southbank Centre’s DEEP∞MINIMALISM festival taking place in June.

He will release a collaborative record with Mica Levi, Remain Calm, on Slip in late 2016.

Z E Y N E P K E P E K L IL I G H T I N G D E S I G N

Zeynep started working in dance when she joined The Royal Opera House after working with theatre companies such as The Arcola, The Old Vic, Royal Shakespeare Company and many more. Zeynep went on to join Richard Alston Dance Company in 2009 as their Production Manager, then became their Lighting Designer. She has height collaborations with the company including Lie of the Land, The Unfinished Business, Darkness Visible, Madcap, Buzzing around the honeysuckle, Rejoice in the Lamb and Burning.

She is currently working as a freelance Production/ Company Stage Manager for Sadler’s Wells Theater (productions include Life in Progress, Milonga, 6000 Miles Away, Push, Thomas Ades Project), English National Ballet (Akram Khan’s Giselle) and New Movement Collective.

N E W M O V E M E N T C O L L E C T I V E

C L E M M I E S V E A A SP E R F O R M E R

Credits include: Witch in Macbeth (Young Vic), Goods in Everyman (National Theatre), Kreusa in Medea ( National Theatre), If Play is Play (HeadSpace), Antonia in The Lightning Child (Shakespear’s Globe), Nest (New Movement Collective), Anna Goeldi in Witch Hunt (Bern Ballet), Mole in The Wind in the Willows (ROH2), Three and Four Quarters (HeadSpaceDance ROH2), Dr Dee (ENO, London), The Princess in The Most Incredible Thing (Sadler’s Wells, Austria and BBC4 ), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal &Derngate), Mojo (Theatre Rites, Barbican), Doctor Dee (Manchester International Festival),Pleasures Progress (ROH2), Aida (Royal Opera House), Eternal Damnation to Sancho and Sanchez (Sadler’s Wells), Swan Trilogy (Ballet Graz), Cattle Call (Pheonix Dance Theatre), Cabaret (Lyric Theatre, West End), Carousel (Chichester Festival Theatre), Ghosts and Pinocchio both at ROH2, Anatomy of a Storyteller (ROH2/ARC), and Seasons 2003/4 for Rambert Dance Company, and 2007/8 for Pheonix Dance Theatre.

Performed and collaborated on works by Choreographers/Directors such as: Carrie Cracknell , Lucy Guerin, New Movement Collective, Alex Whitley, Javier De Frutos, Will Tucket, Fin Walker, Kim Brandstrup, Cathy Marston, Arthur Pita, Darrel Toulon, Ian Spink, Jane Dudly, Jose Limone, Rafael Bonachela, Carol Armitage, Didy Veldman, Luca Silvistrini, Rufus Norris, Matthew Dunster, Angus Jackson, Sue Buckmaster and David MacVicar.

A L E X A N D E R W H I T L E YP E R F O R M E R

Alexander Whitley is a choreographer living and working in London. He has created work for several of the UK’s leading companies including the Royal Ballet, Rambert, Balletboyz and Birmingham Royal Ballet. He is a New Wave Associate artist at Sadler’s Wells theatre, an associate artist at DanceEast and his company, Alexander Whitley Dance Company, is an associate of Rambert.

Alexander trained at the Royal Ballet School and began his career at Birmingham Royal Ballet before moving into contemporary dance, where he enjoyed a wide range of experiences working with companies including Rambert, Michael Clark Company, Sydney Dance Company and Wayne McGregor Random Dance. During this time he was twice nominated for Outstanding Performance in the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards.

Alexander started choreographing early on in his dance career, regularly making work for the companies he danced with. In 2008 his piece Solo? was taken into Rambert’s repertoire and toured the UK. He began presenting work independently at the Royal Opera House through its Summer Collection and Exposure:Dance programmes and between 2012 and 2014 he took up a position as an Affiliate Choreographer of the Royal Ballet Studio Programme. For his choreographic work he was shortlisted for the 2012 Arts Foundation fellowship and was nominated as a Breakthrough Artist in the 2014 Sky Arts Southbank Awards.

That same year he launched Alexander Whitley Dance Company, which with its first two productions, The Measures Taken and The Grit in the Oyster, enjoyed sell out performances at the Royal Opera House and Sadler’s Wells as well as being nominated for a Critics’ Circle Award.

Alexander has developed a strong network of collaborators across numerous art forms, working with filmmakers, designers, digital artists and composers to create innovative and wide-ranging work that seeks to broaden the scope of dance and elucidate movement across the many mediums it bears relevance to. He is also a member of New Movement Collective, a group of acclaimed dancers and choreographers who seek to redefine the landscape of contemporary dance through creating site-specific and multi-disciplinary performance work.

J O N A T H A N G O D D A R DP E R F O R M E R

Jonathan is a professional dance artist, movement director and choreographer who has worked for many major British dance companies including, Richard Alston Dance Company, Scottish Dance Theatre and Rambert Dance Company. In 2013 Jonathan took the title role of Mark Bruce Company’s production of Dracula, which received the Southbank Show Sky Arts Award for Dance.

In 2007 He was the first contemporary dancer to be nominated in the dance category of the South Bank Show /Times Newspaper Breakthrough Award, in 2008 he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance and went on to become the first contemporary dancer to win the Critics Circle National Dance Award for Best Male Dancer. The Critics Circle nominated him twice further as Best Male Dancer in 2011, 2012 before Jonathan went onto win Outstanding Male Performance (modern) and Best Male Dancer awards in 2014.

In 2008 Jonathan founded an education project Dancespinner: a tool which is now being used by over 200 UK schools to explore and create choreography. Since leaving Rambert in 2012, Jonathan has become a part time tutor at the Architectural Association and is founder member of both New Movement Collective and Goddard Nixon – an acclaimed choreographic collaboration with fellow Ex- Rambert dancer Gemma Nixon.

As a Movement Director he has worked for the National Theatre on productions of Strange Interlude, Man and Superman, Beaux Stratagem and Sunset at the Villa Thalia, the Royal Shakespeare Company on Two Gentlemen on Verona and as dance associate on Sam Mendes’ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

R E N A U D W I S E RP E R F O R M E R

Born in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1979, Renaud Wiser, recipient of a Migros bursary, trained in dance in Geneva before starting an international career as a dancer.

He worked in Switzerland with the Ballet Du Grand Theatre de Geneve, in France with the Ballet National De Marseille, In Sweden with the Gothenburg Ballet and in England with Rambert Dance Company and Bonachela Dance Company.

His interest for choreography started in Gothenburg where he created is first work, Fleur de Peau, for the company workshop. Since then, Renaud has created numerous pieces performed in the UK and in festivals in Spain, Poland, Latvia and Italy. In 2011, Renaud took part in Siwic, a coaching project in Zurich for young and promising choreographers.

Renaud is currently free lancing between London and Switzerland.

P A T R I C I A O K E N W AP E R F O R M E R

Patricia is originally from Germany and has been a dancer with Rambert Dance Company since 2004. She has been creating work for the companies’ season of new Choreography on four occasions as well as presenting work at The Place, at the artist platform Work in Spain and in collaboration with the Architecture Association Interprofessional Studio.

In her past projects Patricia has collaborated with Composers Gabriel Prokofiev, Troy Banarzi, rock band Big Linda and producer/musician team Geoff Holroyde, Patrick Murdoch and James Holroyde, as well as designers Georg Meyer-Wiel and Hetta Johnson.

During her time as a dancer with Rambert Patricia has experienced creation and recreations with the range of Choreographers that make up the company repertoire.Before joining Rambert Patricia worked as a dancer for theensemblegroup, Arc Dance Company, Rafael Bonachela, Andile Sotiya, Emilyn Claid and Stephanie Schober and taught at the Rambert School and Urdang Academy.

She trained at the John Neumeier School of the Hamburg Ballet and the Rambert School where she started choreographing for school shows and had a first taste of collaboration with students of St MartinÍs School of Art on their Design for Dance Program for the Cochrane Theatre. After graduating she was sponsored to travel to New York to receive further training at the Ailey School and Merce Cunningham Studios.

J O E W A L K L I N GP E R F O R M E R

Joe is a professional dancer, choreographer and movement director who continues to work with many leading dance and theatre companies.

As a performer he has worked with William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Ballet de Marseille, Ballet Preljocaj and Matthew Bourne, among others.

His choreographic work has led him to become a guest artist with Cross Connection Ballet, Copenhagen, a mentor for Wilton’s Music Hall Strike! Festival and he is a founding member of New Movement Collective, twice nominated for Best Independent Company in the Critics’ Circle.

He is a tutor at The Architectural Association, School of Architecture for their MA/MFA in Spatial Performance and Design and runs his own business as a graphic designer; joewalkling.com.

M A L G O R Z A T A D Z I E R Z O NP R O D U C E R

Malgorzata is a London-based dancer, choreographer and producer.

Born in Poland she worked as a dancer with Rambert, Gothenburg Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, Peter Schaufuss Ballet and Royal Danish Ballet, making guest appearances with Wayne McGregor/Random Dance and the Ballet Boyz. She received two nominations for her performances in the British National Critics’ Circle Awards.

As a choreographer Malgorzata works collaboratively across art forms with commissions including the Kettles’ Yard and the Serpentine Galleries. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally and this autumn Rambert will premier Flight, her first piece for the company’s touring repertoire.

Malgorzata is a member of New Movement Collective, where she produced and co-choreographed and performed in Casting Traces, Nest and Please Be Seated. Malgorzata has a BA in Leadership and Management and is a Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow.

C O M M I S S I O N E D B Y

P R O U D L Y S U P P O R T E D B Y

+L I N K L A T E R S

W I T H S P E C I A L T H A N K S T O English National Ballet, Rambert, Richard Alston Dance Company, The Place Theatre, Brompton Design District, South Kensington Estates, Art Of Disappearing, Siobhan Davies Dance, Caroline Williams, Penny Layden, Hannah Kidd, Charlotte Spencer, Carlo Rizzo, David Kilian Beck, Embassy of Switzerland UK, Anne Marie Keller, Andrew Brentnall and all those who contributed to JustGiving.

Front Photo: Jonathan Goddard © Spiros PolitisOther Photography: © ScanLAB Projects