This performance will showcase two dance duets, Push and Hands Down, by Manchester’s own Company Chameleon. #Performance
Powerful and emotive, Hands Down is a contact-based duet, which looks at the tensions of union and how we display strength and manage vulnerability.
This piece, commissioned by Greenwich & Docklands International Festival and Dance Manchester, explores how, as we walk the tightrope of togetherness, many faces combine to achieve a semblance of union- complicity, duplicity, letting go and holding tight.
Showcasing Chameleon’s signature athletic yet sensitive dance and movement style, Push is a powerful and engaging duet, which looks at the different stances we take to understand and relate to one another.
The piece explores the complex nature of our psychology – how at times we push to exert dominance and control, and at other times choose to submit and step back.
Created by Anthony Missen and Kevin Edward Turner, Push is considered by the dance world as a classic outdoor dance piece and has toured the world since 2012. The piece was originally made as a male duet and as part of a trilogy, exploring themes within relationship interaction.
Co-commissioned by Without Walls and Dance Manchester.
Company Chameleon brings stories and archetypes to life through dance. The company was formed in 2007 out of the collective vision of Anthony Missen and Kevin Edward Turner, dance artists whose thread of collaboration began some fifteen years previously, at Trafford Youth Dance Theatre. They both received formal dance training at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, and went on to work collectively and independently with some of the most innovative and exciting British and International Dance and Dance Theatre companies and choreographers. In coming together as Company Chameleon, the duo have developed an artistic exchange which draws on their individual and collective experience to tackle human and personal issues through dance.
