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Until We Sleep

Sat 18 Jan 2025 8:00PM
  • Sat 18 Jan 2025
    8:00PM
    Quays Theatre
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Lowry Partner company Far From the Norm Presents

Botis Seva’s latest Hip Hop theatre production, Until We Sleep, is a journey underlined with a resistance to change.

Amidst the oppression of leadership, a lone warrior yearns for faith as they lead a wandering community through shifting passages of time. With a celestial blend of percussion and guttural sounds, music bleeds effortlessly into an undulating style of movement performed by Far From The Norm. Feathered costumes give glimpses of kindred spirits transcending above their former identities, whilst piercing light interrupts the stage as a pitiless testing ground, reminding us of a higher power that carves our reality.

Until We Sleep displays the heaviness of hope against the burden of responsibility, yet within the conflict, there exists a softness that breathes life into existence.

Additional information

 

Running Time 62 minutes 

 

Recommended Age 12+

 

Warning Contains strobes, loud music, haze and mild violence.

Credits

Choreographer & Director: Botis Seva

Composer: Torben Sylvest

Costume Designer: Ryan Dawson-Laight

Lighting Designer : Tom Visser

 

Dancers: Jordan Douglas, Shangomola Edunjobi, Larissa Koopman, Joshua Nash, Rose Sall Sao, Joshua Shanny-Wynter, Victoria Shulungu

 

Rehearsal Support: Hayleigh Sellors

Touring Production Manager: Andrej Gubanov, Chris Burr, Seth Rook Williams

Mix & Mastering: Pär Carlsson

Music Collaborators: Pär Carlsson, Chief Chebe, Charlotte Clark, Moustapha Gadiaga, Mohamed Gueye, Eric Mauricia, Paul Shofolahan, Teodor Sjöqvist, That Colombian songbird

 

Costume supervisor: Rosie Whiting

Costume Makers: Sophie Lincoln, Izzy Pellow, Klara Landin Larsson, Isobel Williams, Chantal Short

Prop Maker: Bek Palmer

Set Build: Matter Design

 

Photography: Camilla Greenwell, Tom Visser
Film: Ben Williams
Visual Design: Daniel C Ferro

 

Far From The Norm Team
Artistic Director: Botis Seva

Executive Producer: Lee Griffiths

Production Manager: Andy Downie

Tour Manager: Gabija Capelyte

 

With thanks to Shiloh Seva and Lou Cope.

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Until We Sleep is co-produced by DanceEast, DE SINGEL, Points Communs – Nouvelle Scène nationale of Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise, Rum för Dans, Sadler’s Wells, schrit_tmacher Festival, Tanz Köln (Cologne), Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, The Joyce Theater and The Lowry.

Commissioned by Brighton Dome & Festival and Warwick Arts Centre. Supported by FABRIC and University of East London Dance: Urban Practice.

Funded by Arts Council England, The Linbury Trust, Cockayne Grants for the Arts, PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund and The London Community Foundation.

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