MARKÉTA STRÁNSKÁ & CHARLIE MORRISSEY – SCÁLING
Friday 24th April 8pm £10
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Ahead of being performed at Aerowaves in Guimaraes in Portgual, you can catch this intimate and compelling performance commissioned by Candoco and Sadlers Wells at Wainsgate.
An invitation to pay attention.
Working in real time, two performers with different bodies negotiate weight, time, proximity, and support. Akin to climbing, the material develops through continuous decision-making, where attention functions as material.
The work unfolds gradually through accumulation and sustained negotiation. Shifts in density and intensity emerge through the ongoing and constantly changing conditions of the encounter.
The piece forms an extended enquiry into how attention structures movement and perception in performance.
Matthew Paluch wrote this about the piece in Gramilano:
“It’s an honest, no holds barred exploration of partnering and what it entails. The observational learnings suggest trust, awareness, guidance, responsiveness, risk, and bravery. As a duo they’re so connected, but much more than just physically. There’s a mutual sixth-sense situation. The piece builds throughout: it starts minimally, and as the connection and trust builds so does the movement, in size and scope. This isn’t a ‘pretty’ piece – we are invited to watch the actual nitty-gritty – with moments of discomfort, questioning, elements of failure and recuperation. It’s very engaging… See this necessary work if you can”
Biographies
Charlie approaches choreographic practice as a space for perceptual enquiry — a way of testing what can be seen, sensed, and understood through the body. His work treats imagination as material, using performance to make visible forms of attention, relation, and experience that are not always immediately apparent. He established Wainsgate Dances as an artist-led site for choreographic enquiry.
Markéta has an artistic background in contemporary and traditional dance, puppet theatre and clowning. Her dance projects are characterised by intergenerational and multicultural collaboration. As a dance artist, she seeks ways to express and communicate her personal experience as a dancer with a different physicality.
Both Charlie and Markéta are engaged in movement as a site of enquiry, working with physical, perceptual, and imaginative processes. Charlie’s work focuses on attention and how shifts in focus shape perception. Markéta works closely with the specificities of her body as a dancer with one leg, using movement as a way of articulating lived experience. They both create work across diverse contexts, often outside traditional theatre spaces.