StopGAP Dance Company
Critically acclaimed Portfolio Collection is a dance of stabbing passion, wicked humour and sinister loveliness.
With music ranging from Tarantino-style sounds to a Spanish lament (to a dead dog!) it is an exhilarating mixture of testosterone-fuelled male duets by Hofesh Shechter; an edgy, wild-eyed twisted power struggle by Gary Clarke, punk infested beats from Nathalie Pernette (France), moments of calm from Thomas Mettler (Switzerland), dating tips with Lucy Bennett and a quartet by Rob Tannion (Stan Won’t Dance) where hearts are broken on the quest for love. Basked in red, blue and purple, every human relationship is exposed on a stage littered in red flowers of passion.
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‘This versatile quartet, secure and daring, have an emotional honesty that makes the most stylised actions or situations seems second nature.’ - Timeout
‘A small company with big ideas bowls over an enthusiastic audience with its playfulness, range and passion’ - The Times
‘Their punch drunk satire leaves everyone in the audience chuckling’ – Ballet-Dance Magazine
‘Funny, innovative and engaging’ – Dans Tidningen Magazine, Sweden
‘StopGAP are a joyous burst of Technicolor, and Corpus through its triumphant, energetic affirmation had me questioning my own attitudes.’ – Total Theatre Magazine
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Workshops, seminars, matinees and residencies with educational establishments and disability groups from primary to older people available. Lectures, lecture-demonstrations and training on methods of integration for professional practitioners and international choreographic projects with European collaborators abroad. Workshops and training for disability groups with limited movement or limited verbal comprehension. Business training in setting up integrated dance companies, and the logistics and aesthetics of disability arts.
StopGAP will be offering Access Venue training for all venues that book StopGAP (this is offered free).
Every performance will be audio described live. StopGAP bring own equipment and headsets and install it.
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StopGAP is the only professional UK dance company with a dancer who uses a wheelchair, dancer who has Downs Syndrome and non-disabled dancers. Presenting a mixture of pure dance and dance theatre StopGAP shocase work by UK and international choreographers, performing 50 times a year across Europe.
The company push integration to its limits, challenging traditional notions about dance by using each dancer's physical and intellectual potential as a starting point for creating new work.
StopGAP’s performances are a combination of precision dance technique and
entertaining theatrical dance, which has inspired audiences across Europe
entertaining theatrical dance, which has inspired audiences across Europe
artform dance theatre
scale middle/small
availability from april 2009
