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Photographer: Mark Pepperal/Hot Pepper Productions

Photographer: Mark Pepperal/Hot Pepper Productions

KOMPANY MALAKHI

Dance theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
Varies

SCALE OF VENUE
Small-, middle- and large-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Kwesi Johnson

General Manager
Joanne Peters

Administrator
Natalie Allistone

ARTISTIC POLICY
Kompany Malakhi is an innovative dance theatre company whose work seeks to challenge and deconstruct preconceptions through a fresh and exciting physical language. Kompany Malakhi’s productions bring together a myriad of influences from physical theatre, hip hop culture and contemporary dance. The company offers a unique and unexpected performance style and attracts a young, diverse audience both its theatre and site-specific productions.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Newcastle Journal

Dance Europe

The New Nation

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
A TV salesman struggles with reality and is consumed by his invention: the 20 screen plasma dream. Film and physical theatre combine to portray the search for truth in the age of information.(29 mins, no interval, 1 on stage, 5 on the road.)

Another dream date shatters and twists into recurring patterns of tragedy. Funk styles, physical theatre and provocative imagery ricochet between real and surreal, comic and tragic. A haunting serenade of dance theatre. (19 mins, no interval, 1 on stage, 5 on the road.)

FUTURE PRODUCTION
Literally breaks down obstructions by using physical theatre, dance, hip hop culture, and parkour. The set becomes the sixth performer creating an ever-changing landscape as a metaphor for social barriers in 21st century society. (80 mins, including interval, 5 on stage, 9 on the road.)

WRAP-AROUND
Kompany Malakhi provides workshops, residencies, masterclasses, post-performance discussions, and lecture demonstrations. The majority of wrap-around activity can be adapted to suit age ranges 13+ and the company can work with both an amateur and professional audience. Workshops and residencies include: physical theatre, contemporary dance, breakin, funk, jazz, capoeira, freestyle street dance (lockin, poppin, b-boy basics), and urban British jazz dance. The company also offers residencies (minimum of two days) that can combine dance styles with other art forms. These can be tailored to suit participants’ needs

TOURING AVAILABILITY
andavailable from January 2008
available from autumn 2008

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