head bucket bed
A collaboration with Lara Ritosa-Roberts and Alex Roth
head bucket bed, created by choreographer Klaudia Wittmann, is a daring new dance theatre piece exploring gendered abuse through the histories of women’s gymnastics and psychiatry. Inspired by lived experience as well as scandals in sport and medicine, the work builds and dismantles dreamscapes made of flesh, objects, materials. As bodies merge with, resist, and are constrained by their surroundings, the work interrogates the psychophysical structures of domination and submission, control and vulnerability. Within these fragile spaces, the violence of shame emerges as a central force. It shows us how experiences of abuse displace guilt in visceral ways, forming dangerous dependencies disguised as inevitable destiny.
The original sound score was created by composer Alex Roth, using exclusively sounds that were recorded from the set and the materials within it.
Concept and choreography: Klaudia Wittmann
Dancers: George Perez, Klaudia Wittmann, Silas Grocott Cain
Music: Alex Roth
Objects and props: Lara Ritosa-Roberts
Video artist: Arturo Bandinelli
Supported by: Arts Council England, AHRC UK, Centre for Dance Research Coventry
“vulnerable. playful. strong. moving.” (audience member)
"as surreal and uncanny as dreams can be." (Dance Art Journal) - read full review here
