BEAT
“A fifty-minute solo of reinvention… Cool, intelligent, thought-provoking BEAT excels because of its fantastic creative team and its absolute superstar, Margherita Elliot.”DANCE TABS – ✭✭✭✭✭
BEAT (2019, Salford)
PERFORMED BY:
Margherita Elliot
DJ:
Martha
LIGHTING DESIGNER:
Seth Rook Williams
SET and COSTUME:
KASPERSOPHIE
DRAMATURG:
Simon Ellis
OUTSIDE EAR:
Alberto Ruiz Soler
PRODUCTION MANAGER:
Fergus Waldron
PRODUCER:
Sarah Maguire
MOVEMENT ADVISOR:
Olmo Hidalgo
DIRECTED BY:
Moreno Solinas, Igor Urzelai
CO-PRODUCED WITH:
Theatre de la Ville
FUNDED BY:
National Lottery through Arts Council England
COMMISSIONED BY:
The Place, The Lowry and Cambridge Junction
SUPPORTED BY:
the Spanish Embassy Office of Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Siobhan Davies Dance, Dance4, TIR Danza, Workshop Foundation, Dantzagunea, l’Animal a l’esquena, BAD Festival, S’ALA and The Point.
I. You. Them. Us. Her. Him. They. She. We.
Wanting, watching, laughing, leaving, hiding, smelling, smiling, knowing, growling.
Beat is now. Beat is transforming. Beat is alive.
The beat goes on.
BEAT started from questioning what it means to be part of a generation that was brought up with the promise of endless possibilities. It developed into an ongoing research on how we identify ourselves, how we recognise (or not) ourselves in others and how we are able to project multiple images of ourselves. We now imagine BEAT as a celebration of the fatigue, pain and uncertainty of deciding day by day – moment by moment – who we are. One person. On the spot. Reinventing themselves over and over.
TRAILER
RESEARCH CREDITS:
– INSIDE: Margherita Elliot
– OUTSIDE: Igor Urzelai and Moreno Solinas
– DJ: Ana Bolena
– Commissioned by The Lowry, The Place and Cambridge Junction. Co-produced by Theatre de la Ville (Paris). Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Additional support from Dance4, Dansateliers (Rotterdam), Siobhan Davies Dance, The Point, Workshop Foundation (Budapest), Dantzagunea (San Sebastian), l’Animal a l’esquena (Celrà) and BAD Festival (Bilbao).
THANKS TO
Angelica Bollettinari, Alice Elliot, Martin Holbraad, I Matti (Gameshow), Animali Domestici, Francesca Pennini, Margherita d’Aloja and Marisa Lim.
