16th March 7.30pm (£5)
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Choreographer/director Jacky Lansley brings her latest work Guest Suites, a study in crystalline form, to three very different spaces: the airy Clore Studio Upstairs, York Minster’s octagonal Chapter House and industrial Barbican Theatre Plymouth.
Guest Suites is inspired by Bach’s Cello Suites, six dance suites for unaccompanied cello. Lansley and her frequent collaborator composer Jonathan Eato use Bach’s form – six dances in six suites – as an artistic template. Lansley says: “The formal beauty of Bach’s Cello Suites provide an intriguing emotional and structural world for the work. The suites remain an artistic touchstone not just for musicians but for all artists and suggest an aesthetic which remains radical in its simplicity and structure. I’m looking for the space for innovation within them.”
The first three Bach Cello Suites will be performed live by outstanding cellist Audrey Riley and, on historic recording, by Pablo Casals. Eato’s contemporary addition Suite Inserts, a ‘compositional reworking’ of four movements for cello and electronics, will also be performed live by Riley and, on laptop, by Eato himself.
Central to Guest Suites is the idea of artists guesting in each other’s worlds. Lansley brings together an outstanding company of performers including Tim Taylor, Ayano Honda, Fergus Early, Polly Motley and actor Vincent Ebrahim within her unique choreographic landscape.
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