Weightless
Flexer and Sandiland
- When?
- Wednesday 20 March 2013, 19:30
- Where?
- Electric Theatre, Guildford, GU1 4SZ
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Admission price:
- £15, £12 senior citizens, University staff, £5 students, concessions
- Admission information:
- Tickets from Electric Theatre Box Office - 01483 444789
Weightless is a new work celebrating Yael Flexer’s 20th anniversary as a choreographer. Engaging, thoughtful, but with a cheeky wink, this show carries Yael’s trademark witty text and humour combined with fastpaced, space-hungry movement and a driving musical score by Israeli cellist Karni Postel.
It also features an exciting digital element with radio-controlled floating objects drifting through the auditorium and a multiplicity of sound objects; disembodied voices immersing both audience and performers.
Weightless playfully references its own historical position. It questions the ‘weight’ of history, both personal and aesthetic: what is it that roots us down physically and emotionally? What might it feel like to let go or take flight?
As the cast of international performers attempt to ‘get on with the show,’ their meaningful glances, mutual teasing and asides to the audience subvert the choreography and unsettle their choreographer - who desperately tries to keep things under control from the wings.