PROTEIN DANCE

Dance theatre, Physical theatre, Text-based: light

SIZE OF COMPANY
10–12 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Luca Silvestrini

General Manager
Sarah Trist

ARTISTIC POLICY
Relishing the extraordinary in everyday life, award-winning Protein Dance has steadily built a reputation for creating high energy, hilarious and thought-provoking dance theatre by putting human behaviour under the choreographic microscope. You don’t have to be a dance fan to enjoy their performances because Protein places entertainment at the top of the menu.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘An apolocalyptic energy that’s by turns funny, alarming and intoxicating… I laughed out loud.’ The Independent on Sunday (Big Sale)

‘Like a choreographic van Helsing, Silvestrini drives a stake through the heart of D-list celebrity, red-top prurience, overdraft culture, fashion-victimhood, CCTV surveillance, happy slapping, mobile-phone advertising and a host of other parasite forms and watches them collapse into bubbling slime.’ Observer (Big Sale)

‘Witty and surreal dance-theatre… like a Pina Bausch work in miniature.’ The Sunday Times (The Banquet)

FUTURE PRODUCTION
Dear Body Luca Silvestrini explores our relationship with our body; how we love it, hate it, and try to control it. (Available from October 2008.)

WRAP-AROUND
Protein delivers dance with everyone, regardless of their age, background or ability. The company has a particular interest in creative work with cross-generational groups and hard to reach young people.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 France (Valenciennes), Greece (Crossroads)
2005 Canada (Duel)
2004 Italy (Publife)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
From October 2008