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FRAUKE REQUARDT / Image: Roadkill Café / Photographer: Chris Nash

Image:
Photographer: Chris Nash

FRAUKE REQUARDT

Live music|Dance theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
5–12 on the road

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director and Choreographer
Frauke Requardt
Development Manager
Gwen van Spijk

ARTISTIC POLICY
Frauke Requardt’s work offers striking visual imagery, physically exciting dancing, strong theatricality, dark humour, and an underpinning surrealism. She uses text and live music, often jazz-based, and a mixture of abstract and emotionally based movement to deliver entertaining and intriguing performances.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Ballet magazine ()

Robert Clough

Ben Felsenburg ()

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS

Requardt challenges her dancers to spontaneously adapt her choreography to the changing nature of improvised jazz music. Full of mischievous humour and chaotic energy, played out to an intimately positioned audience.
60 mins, 12 on the road, sexually explicit

Lures the audience into unworldly, jazz-fuelled setting where we meet a rich cast of off-kilter characters including the ukulele man and his kooky cowboy sister, none of whom are quite what they seem.
80 minutes, 9 on the road

A humorous work designed specifically for restaurant and café settings where diners can choose from a menu of dances that slowly build up to a crescendo that takes over the whole restaurant.
60 minutes, 7 on the road

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS

A piece consisting of 6 episodes of short dance stories that fit together like a puzzle. With three performers and live music.

WRAP-AROUND
Frauke Requardt and company offer high-quality education workshops that can be delivered alongside performances. Ranging from 2 hours to a full-day these workshops consist of a release-based class, some repertoire with a focus on improvisation leading into a compositional, more creative part. They always contextualise the work and reveal how the company works. The company is also open to residencies and weekly workshops.
Post and Pre-show talks and discussions are also available alongside performances.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Columbia: 2007 France:
2007 Portugal: Residency for 2007 Italy: Residency for

TOURING AVAILABILITY
, and From January 2009
from spring 2010

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