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BABEL
A new work created in collaboration with writer Patrick Neate
A new work created in collaboration with writer Patrick Neate
Stan Won't Dance is back with a new show, BABEL, which will open at Laban on 21st January and then tour throughout the UK until 12 March 2010. Babel unites choreographic mavericks Liam Steel and Rob Tannion with the Whitbread Award-winning writer Patrick Neate whose work spans fiction, journalism and performance poetry.
Stan Won't Dance was set up in 2003 by Liam Steel, Rob Tannion and creative producer, Ellie Beedham, as a result of their shared vision to create theatre pieces where movement, visual imagery and text are fully integrated. Combining explosive movement with Patrick Neate's dynamic street verse, Babel explores the potential of choreographed polemic and abrasive, uncompromising contemporary language to question how, despite the perceived liberties of British society, restrictive ideas of political correctness, materialism and the single agenda media have compromised true freedom of speech.
An all-male cast composed of some of the UK's finest physical theatre performers fly straight in the face of convention to ask fundamental questions about the Britain we live in today.
Direction and choreography by Liam Steel and Rob Tannion, text by Patrick Neate, scenography by Liam Steel, sound design by Gareth Fry, lighting design by Andy Purves, video design by Matt Spencer, and performed by Nathaniel Parchment, Matt Winston, Dan Watson, Hugh Stainer and Moreno Solinas.
Patrick Neate's Babel was originally commissioned by Channel Four (UK). This new stage production for Stan Won't Dance is commissioned by Swindon Dance and Salisbury Arts Centre, co-produced by Laban Theatre and Stan Won't Dance in association with Apples and Snakes, and is supported by Arts Council England and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
