Arts Agenda

Gravity & Levity Re-flex

A floating exploration of physical human poetry by pairs of exquisitely effortless dancers...  Stunning accompanying music was married to the magical movement 

John Billington, Southern Daily Echo 

In association with The Dream Engine.

Re-flex is a highly imaginative new outdoor work from aerial dance company, Gravity & Levity.

 

Three women voyagers circumnavigate a strange landscape reflecting tales from journeys past and those yet to come.  With split second timing and sensitive counterbalancing, the dancers ebb and flow across the structure, diving through calm seas and troubled waters to resurface anew, evoking images of sirens, sailors cast adrift and of seemingly weightless sea creatures tumbling, spiralling and sweeping through a dreamlike terrain.

 

With innovative set design and finely crafted aerial dance performed to a hauntingly evocative soundscape, the dancers enter an ‘otherworldly’ space where the real and the imaginary merge, suspended in time and motion.

 

Choreographed by Lindsey Butcher (Gravity & Levity) and designed by Steve Edgar (The Dream Engine), the collaboration combines the two company’s strengths to create an inventive and captivating aerial dance performance.

 

Re-flex is a free-standing, circular structure supporting a series of flexible poles forming a three-dimensional aerial performance arena, to be viewed in the round.

 

www.gravity-levity.net

www.thedreamengine.co.uk

 

 

Re-flex is a Without Walls Commission and is funded by the Arts Council England South East, with generous support from the University of Surrey and The Point Eastleigh.