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GRAVITY & LEVITY / Image: Shifty / Photographer: Johan Persson

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Photographer: Johan Persson

GRAVITY & LEVITY

Aerial performance|Contemporary circus|Contemporary dance

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Lindsey Butcher
Producer
Emma Haughton

ARTISTIC POLICY
Gravity & Levity was founded in 2003 by dancer and aerialist, Lindsey Butcher, to explore the creative and expressive potential of aerial dance.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
The Times
The Sunday Times
Southern Daily Echo

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
: An evening of aerial performance fusing contemporary dance, circus and live music in a sculptural set. 3 sections, choreographed by Charlotte Vincent, Charles Linehan and Luke Cresswell & Steve McNicholas.
6 dancers, 2 crew, 70 mins
A driven and fierce aerial dance duet on a vertical wall. Power and strength are juxtaposed with ease and surrender. Performed indoors or outdoors.
2 dancers, 1 crew, 20 mins
: Propelled in a giant wheel, two dancers are lifted into seemingly impossible moments of suspension forcing split second timing, sensitive counterbalance, play, and a huge amount of trust.
2 dancers, 1 crew, 20 mins

WRAP-AROUND
Gravity & Levity’s performing company comprises some of the UK’s finest specialist teachers and offers a broad, accessible and ambitious programme workshops, residencies and after-show discussions that can be based around specific dance and aerial techniques, collaborative process of making work, be creative or equipmen-based and can form a one-off event or work towards an ongoing project.

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