IMPACT DRIVER by Eve Stainton: 20 & 21 Nov @ The Mount Without
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IMPACT DRIVER by Eve Stainton
20th & 21st November 2024
@ The Mount Without
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Impact Driver. ICA, Sep 2023. Trailer
Filmed and edited by Chloe Page.
Artist and performance maker Eve Stainton releases their new choreographic commission, Impact Driver. Featuring live welding, movement, and live sound, scored by Leisha Thomas and Mica Levi.
Impact Driver is interested in methodologies for constructing thriller-like suspense. How suspense can be sustained as the main event, in the absence of a climax or traditional resolution. Borrowing the logic from a welding workshop, Stainton foregrounds activities that require live negotiation and decision making; making visible how scenes and objects take their shape, and continue to move through meanings. Atmospheres, garments, feelings and materials, generative and in tension.
Working with time-based notions of being ‘caught in the act’ and ‘on tenterhooks’, Stainton explores how suspense as a rumbling undercurrent has the potential to punctuate lesbian and trans-masc identities. Haunting, time stretching, absurdist.
‘Welding is potent for me in so many ways- its strong alchemical presence, its extreme theatricality, its capacity for danger/excitement/drama/power/thrill, its sensuality, its brashness.’ - Eve Stainton
Featuring an ensemble from different creative backgrounds who don’t usually work in the field of dance, this research continues Stainton’s work in celebrating the gender non-conforming lesbian and trans-masc experience, of which there are many, and what foregrounding these identities means to the white western Contemporary Dance canon.
CREDITS
Concept and Choreography: Eve Stainton
Performance: Eve Stainton, Tink Flaherty, Imani Mason Jordan, Romeo Roxman Gatt, Leisha Thomas & Mica Levi
Sound World: Leisha Thomas & Mica Levi
Producer: Michael Kitchin
Set Design and Fabrication: H S Design Studios
Production Manager: Helen Mugridge
Lighting Designer: Charlie Hope
Costume Designer: Ella Boucht
Welding Manager: Hester Moriarty Thompson
Dramaturgical Support: Liz Rosenfeld & Jamila Johnson-Small
Artist Care Person: Seyi Adelekun & Madinah Farhannah Thompson
PR: Binita Walia
Access Dramaturg and Embodied Writer: Kat Bailed
Choreographic Support: Florence Peake
3D Typography: Bora AKA Pauline Canavesio
Access Support Worker: Mitch Maker
Audio Description: Shivaangee Agrawal and Elaine Lillian Joseph from SoundScribe
Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Take Me Somewhere, Wysing Arts Centre and Dansehallerne. Supported by Bergen Kunsthall and Wainsgate. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. With thanks to Phyllida Barlow Studio for steel donation.