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Contemporary Performance Companies

Recent-ish

Lone Twin
Knee High Theatre
Desperate Optimists
Uninvited Guests
Bodies in Flight
Pigeon theatre
Action Hero
Third Angel
Zoo Indigo
Michael Pinchbeck
Vincent dance
These Horses
Imitating the Dog
Gob squad

Slightly older

Pina Bausch
Robert Wilson
Robert Le Page
Forced Entertainment
Reckless Sleepers
Station House Opera

Even older

The People Show
IOU
Welfare State International
Red Ladder


Approaches/techniques we have used

Fragmented theatre
Non-linear narrative
Chance technique – (Merce Cunningham)
Gesture Choreography
Performing as self
Addressing the audience
Stepping between acting ‘self’ and ‘performance persona’
Using live film feed to highlight action
Ensemble performance
Creating text from improvisation
Sourcing text from pre-written material i.e. film, script, fact, websites etc
Cutting up/re-appropriating found text.
Layering different texts