Dear Friends If you followed this blog during its heyday, you’ll know that the Vital Signs project wrapped up back in early 2019 after a wonderful run. We thank you for all your support and interest during that time and since. Some of you will know that subsequently Sarie took up a new post as […]
Vital Signs adrift
Herewith some great images from the wings of our performance at DRIFT at the Lowry last month. Courtesy of Annie Feng.
Vital Signs Drifted!
DRIFT at the Lowry on Tuesday was a fantastic experience. Emmy of Meraki Collective produced a wonderful evening in collaboration with VAM and Test Card, and we were hugely impressed by Jade Parker, Howl Creative and React (Sean Clarke and Dubonautik). It was a great opportunity for us to test and reset our material for […]
Vital Signs: DRIFT
A little advance warning of our next performance, coming soon to The Lowry, Salford Quays on Tuesday 23rd October. From the Lowry website: A Test Card, VAM and Meraki Collective collaboration presenting a night of experimentation and co-creation from Manchester artists, musicians and performers. As Manchester booms and venues fall and rise, artists continually drift […]
Vital Signs: face to face with Paris
On Wednesday we gave our performance ‘Face-à-Face’ (Encounters) at the Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP). We had two wonderful days rehearsing in the impressive surroundings of the Grand Salon of the college, as well as having a little bit of time to explore the city in unseasonably […]
Vital Signs Wrestling Truth: some rehearsal images by Roger Bygott
Whilst we were doing our final technical rehearsal for last Saturday’s performance of Wrestling Truth, we invited artist, photographer and Five Rhythms dancer Roger Bygott to the New Adelphi Studio Theatre to take some photographs. Here are a few of his excellent images, which give a flavour of some of our performance material.
Vital Signs: return to Paris!
Fresh from the glow of the festival weekend we travel to Paris on Sunday to resume our collaboration with Pierre Levy, Boris Wiseman and Alizée Gau. We have two full days rehearsal at the Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris and on the third we perform Face-à-Face (Encounters) as […]
Vital Signs in Quarantine!
On Wednesday last week we were visited by Kate and Sarah from Quarantine, who are bringing the company’s latest show ‘Wallflower’, to the New Adelphi Theatre on Friday 19th October (details here: http://www.wallflowerdances.com/). The concept of the show is that the performers will be trying to remember every dance they’ve ever danced, and, to aid […]
