Dance company Motionhouse makes a splash
MOTIONHOUSE have been producing groundbreaking dance theatre spectaculars since 1988 and their 18th full-length production, Scattered, coming to The Lowry next week, is one of their most ambitious yet.
Scattered, which premiered in October last year, is a show about water and how it affects our lives in different elements, exploring ‘the amazing in the everyday in a meteor shower of unlikely moments.’
Conceived and directed by artistic director Kevin Finnan – who admits the title comes from the fact that the work started as a series of scattered ideas – it’s a collaboration with award-winning Basque film-makers Logela Multimedia, that continues Finnan’s exploration of integrating dance, music, film and graphics that began with Perfect and continued in Driven.
In Scattered, which took two years to make, that integration is total. Rather than merely providing a backdrop, the creators use multiple projection technology to create a world in which the dancers move, on and through the images.
The audience is greeted by a giant curved stage that arcs skywards to a height of over four metres.
It resembles a giant half-pipe in a skate park and doubles as a film screen.
Then it takes us on a journey through a series of landscapes from the cold, icy north, via the deep blues of the lakes and oceans, the greens of the temperate regions, and the red heat of the desert, before finally returning to the snow of the far south.
Scattered is at The Lowry on February 9 and 10, 2010.
Published: Fri, 05 February, 2010
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