Quartet: movement / music / video / text

Event information

4 pieces, each with live improvised music
4 performers working with real time composition to shape their work
4 elements: movement; sound; film and text
4 ways to move the imagination . . . .

Quartet is an evening of dance, music and performance, created in a series of open ended improvisation sessions and dialogue between dance artists Angus Balbernie, Helen MacPhee, Yolande Snaith and Klara Łucznik, and musicians Carolyn Hume and Paul May.
Quartet has evolved into a collaboration between structure and spontaneity, ideas and
intentions, musicians and performers, bringing diverse elements and artists together.

From Here - this moment is the beginning; from here we move on with what we are, what we have, what we notice and what we feel.

Rest without Resting - a shared space of improvised movement and music with film. Movement explores thoughts, emotions and imagination further stimulated in response to sound.

There is only one joke in Montana - imagine a vast empty landscape, and the possibility of bears. What’s funny about that?

Whispering into the Blue - creates an elemental synthesis of dance, film, music and text, journeying through metaphorical landscapes of absence, re-inhabiting and breathing light and love into empty spaces of darkness and loss, honoring remembrance, inviting renewal.

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Level access from street


Accompanying workshops: Separate booking links to come
These will all happen in the Studio upstairs (no lift)

Saturday 22 March, 11am – 1pm with Jane Mason
More info to come

Saturday March 22, 3 - 5pm Ensemble CI Lab with Klara Łucznik
Immerse yourself in the richness and magic of group structures in contact improvisation, where connections are woven not only through touch but also through space and time.

Sunday March 23, 2 - 4pm : Post performance workshop with Yolande Snaith.
An invitation to experience the integral structures and themes explored and in Quartet, offering insights into dance-making 'in the moment' and collaborative practice.

Sunday March 23, 5-6pm: JAM
an hour-long open improvisation session with soundscapes by Gisson Hussman.
All workshop attendees are welcome to participate. A limited number of spectator tickets will be available.