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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Soft Landing

Soft Landing opens next week!

Soft Landing is a theatre/dance piece based around the music of both Bombazine Black records and features the band playing live.   It opens next week in Berlin.  Don't miss it!



battleROYAL will present its premiere dance production at Dock 11 – Berlin from the 4th to the 7th November 2010 at 8.30pm.

Having recently returned from two fabulous new teaterkoncert creations in Copenhagen, battleROYAL has now been busy devising an exceptional new dance work with the stirring music of Australian band Bombazine Black.

Soft Landing presents moments of ungraspable pasts and foggy memories, producing an experience of the impotence and redundancy of age. Via human marionette systems and a haunting live sound track, the performance attempts to create a rare empathy for a redundant, elderly character.

“A fascinating soulful piece that perfectly combines emotions with acrobatic performances and clownesque drafts.”
Mia Frick, Volksblatt Liechtenstein.

battleROYAL is a diverse performing arts company working worldwide on event shows, theatre productions and site-specific projects. The company takes pride in delivering exceptional work of beauty and power accompanied by unique twists that separate it from the pack.

Concept, Choreography: Brendan Shelper (Choreography in collaboration with the dancers) - Assistant Choreographer: Susana Beiro - Dancers: Florian Bücking, Jonathan Buckels, Janine Joyner, Susana Beiro - Musicians: Matt Davis, Jayne Tuttle, Malte Weberruss - Music: Bombazine Black - Light: Alesandra Beiro - Costumes: Sophie vom Scheidt - Video: Timm Ringewaldt

www.battleroyalprojects.com                      
www.bombazineblack.com

Supported by:
The Kulturstiftung Liechtenstein, The Karl Mayer Stiftung, Dr. Peter Goop, Vaduz, Stiftung Fürstl. Kommerzienrat Guido Feger and Dock 11.

Dock 11, Kastanienallee 79 - 10435 Berlin
Tickets: 030 – 4481222 / dock11@dock11-berlin.de

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Berlin

Jayne and I are in Berlin to perform with battleROYAL on a show called Soft Landing.  The show features songs from both Bombazine Black records played live and some amazing dance and aerial performance by the battleROYAL crew.  It's going to be quite a show!

From the battleROYAL website:

battleROYAL presents its new production Soft Landing, a gentle research into the future of our rapidly aging society. The piece explores themes of social isolation, independence and loneliness through the world of a generic 75 year-old man and the various interactions he has with himself.

The performance presents moments of ungraspable pasts and foggy memories, producing an experience of the impotence and redundancy of age.

The relentlessly gentle execution of Soft Landing produces an oppressive weight of passivity. Its determined and creepy softness and slowness is the work’s uncomfortable, strange power.

The human marionette systems represent the thin red lines that govern a society both supporting and restricting. They physically suspend the characters on stage, at times giving them a rare sense of freedom.

Soft Landing is set to the live music of ‘Bombazine Black’. The stunning three-piece Melbourne band that blends glockenspiel and delicate overlays of haunting guitars into a cinematic sound-track.

And here's the trailer:



If you're in Berlin buy your tickets now.  If not it's worth a trip!

4, 5, 6 and 7 November 2010 | 20:30 Uhr | Dock 11 - Kastanienallee 79, Berlin