ANUSHIYE YARNELL

Dance theatre, Devised theatre, Performance

SIZE OF COMPANY
2 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Dancer, Choreographer and Artistic Director
Anushiye Yarnell

ARTISTIC POLICY
Anushiye Yarnell’s performance works reveal an alternate territory for the audience and performer to co-inhabit. She unfolds a dimension synergising fantasy and reality, reconstructing fragments from the realm of everyday life into existential, functional daydreaming. The frictional romance between choreographed and improvisational movement generates a process of transformation, a kind of deliberate, accidental self-deconstruction. Her works draw on personal experience, past and future mythologies, notions of paradise and civilisation, dreams and cultural diversity.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘An innovative, tantalising and provocative performer… far from conventional... wonderful, disturbing and physically impressive.’ Theatre Wales (Exotica)

‘In her distinctive, quirky, gauche yet elegant style… It steered a course between the erotic and the absurd with a fine sense of intriguing ambiguity.’ David Adams, The Western Mail (Bear)

‘Yarnell still has the power to entrance and she has that magic ingredient that makes out the creative genius.’ David Adams, The Western Mail (Sugar Blood)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Bear An examination of the mysterious identities and interconnections of love, human and animal. Investigates Yarnell‘s emotional state when inhabiting an animal’s outer skin and layers that with her personal inner reflections of a love affair. Ambiguous in its exploration of female sexuality, Bear treads a line between the sensuous and the absurd, reality and fantasy. (30 or 50 mins, no interval, 1 on stage, 1–2 on the road.)

Sugar Blood Contrasts three forms of “beating”- the beating heart, the beating of conflict, and the beating of a butterfly’s wings in flight. The piece explores the tension between embrace and violence, sex and love, attachment and freedom, and searches for a common source for these energies in the human heart. (33 mins, 1 on stage, 2 on the road.)

FUTURE PRODUCTION
Silver A piece which works with projections of human identity into the future. (30 mins, 1 on stage, 2 on the road.)

WRAP-AROUND
Post performance discussions and workshop available which explore the dialogue between improvisational and choreographed movement. A 15 minute film accompanies Bear.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 France, Peru (Bear)
2006 Germany (Sugar Blood)
2005 Denmark (Sugar Blood)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request