Y DANCE

Conceived and Directed by:         Kevin Finnan
Choreography:                        Kevin Finnan & the dancers
Dancers:                      Vanessa Cook, Junior Cunningham,

                    Wendy Hesketh, Helen Parlor, Stuart Waters.

Set Design:                        Simon Dormon

Box frame set: a white box gradually revealing a wire cage. Many different uses. Set includes projection, sand, a paper screen, water, a gauze screen and slings. Rakes and brooms are used as props.
Lighting design:                 Mark Parry

The lighting works with the film and the set, sometimes sharpening the focus, other times layering the image. In some sections lighting divides the floor space and creates shadows. In other sections purple and gold lights achieve a bright, colourful effect.
Original music:                  Sophy Smith & Tim Dickinson

A mixture including percussion, voice, electric guitar. Creates atmosphere, sometimes matching and sometimes contrasting with the movement content
Costume:                          Claire Armitage

Simple, everyday, gender-specific. Men wear white shirts and black trousers. Women wear short, strappy, black dresses. Clean lines and shapes, adapted to work around harnesses for flying. White clothes worn in opening scene.
Film within:                      Caroline Bridges

Dance style:    Combines dance theatre and aerial work. Strong physicality and contact work. Style
uses and defies gravity.

Theme:   The way we witness time and how as a force it pulls and shapes us, drawing upon
the concepts of waiting, nurturing, time flying by and the aging process.

Stimulus:   Space and time. A book called The History of Barbed Wire