Learning From The Future
by Colette Sadler/Stammer Productions
Learning from the Future is a post-human dance fiction by Colette Sadler. Imagine a post-human future where bodies are on the verge of disappearance. In Learning from the Future, the futuristic female cyborg Body A inhabits a science-fiction world. The fictionality of Body A is taken as a poetic means to speculate on an inconceivable reality where ever-accelerating flows of information and encoded data could dictate the manner in which bodies move and function. The choreography uses movement to amplify the primitive power of bodies against the background of their dematerialisation and disappearance.
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REVIEWS
“In this literally penetrating choreography by Berlin resident Colette Sadler, the body is a virtuoso machine, but, just as a user is uninterested in the inner complexity of programs, apps or a washing machine, it is neither the machinery nor the virtuosity which is on show here, rather both are synthesised with striking ease. The body of the future presented by British choreographer Colette Sadler is a perfectly controlled apparatus designed for performance, from which the viewer can expect existence without gender, modesty without pride, and servitude without ideology. It is a body that deserves ovations.” — Arnd Wesemann
“A thrilling and urgent ritual…Humanity’s intelligence seems to have culminated in the flickers of light that emanate from this form – what purpose or possibility, then, is left in the material body? In flesh, weight, limbs, a head, or hands? The dancer continues to dance; rolling, twisting, turning. A series of impossibly fast gestures – hands shifting each other – technology testing itself?” Paul Hughes, Exeunt Magazine
CREDITS
Choreography: Colette Sadler
Performance: Leah Marojevic
Music: Brendan Dougherty
Video: Mikko Gaestel
Light: Samuli Laine
Costume: Eyal Meistel
Dramaturgy: Assaf Hochman
Producers: Feral
By Colette Sadler / Stammer Productions and Dance4 / Arts Council of England. Funded by Creative Scotland. Supported by residencies at TanzHaus Zurich and Bora-Bora Aarhus. Part of the British Council Showcase 2019.
TOUR HISTORY
30th June + 1st July 2017, Sophiensæle Berlin
29th September 2017, Nottingham Contemporary
19th + 20th August 2017, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
18th October 2017, Eden Court, Inverness
21st October 2017, DanceLive Festival Aberdeen
2nd April 2018, TweetAkt Festival, Utrecht
20th June 2018, Birmingham International Dance Festival
14th November 2018, South Bank Centre, London
20-24th August 2019, The British Council Showcase, Dance Base, Edinburgh