FALLING FROM THE HIGH RISE OF LOVE
Artistic Director Charlotte
Vincent
Soundtrack John
Avery
Set Design Richard
Lowdon
Made and Performed by Charlotte
Vincent, TC Howard,
Stewart Lodge, James Flynn and Harry Theaker (whose role was adapted in
Spring 2000 by Peter Shenton)
Desolately positioned at the foot of a huge billboard bra advert, Falling
from the High Rise of Love takes place in the kind of no-mans land
of lost belongings and wet dreams. It is somewhere on the margins of society,
somewhere people wouldn't choose to go. Performed by five dancers and actors,
Falling from the High Rise of Love describes life on the
edges of society and explores the disparity between inner and outer spaces,
between the real and the imagined. Engaging with the architecture of the
set, the piece becomes a spectacle of people failing to cope, in a series
of events that expose the most private human moments, the most indecent
choices, the most public flashes of humiliation. A complex, endless narrative
Falling from the High Rise of Love becomes a restless collision
course of emotions, at once beautiful and forlorn, punishing and amusing
- a place where people stumble and fall, get the timing all wrong, parade
tawdry secrets and weep quietly out of sight.
Falling From the High Rise of Love is co commissioned by
Yorkshire Dance
and Arnolfini
Live. Supported by Sheffield and Rotherham Dance Project, South Yorkshire
Dance, Swindon
Dance and University
College Scarborough. Funded by Sheffield City Arts, Yorkshire and Humberside
Arts and the Arts
Council of England.
'Five impressive performers display a startling physicality... dance as dysfunction, a site of conflict becomes dance as genuine affirmation - this show matters emotionally and pushes dance forward as it does so' The Stage (click for full review)
