About the Works

The Dirty Work by Jo Bannon

The Dirty Work is a live performance that explores the showmanship, crip expertise, and everyday performativity of visual impairment (VI). Highlighting the techniques and labour employed by Blind and VI folk to navigate the world through senses other than sight, the work critiques and celebrates the skill and misdirection required to perform or ‘pass’ in a society organised around the primacy of vision.

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Side-Show by Tom Cassani

This new work provisionally entitled Side-Show explores the public/private body and hidden labour intrinsic in embodying deception, taking skills from the world of magic and circus such as sword swallowing and hair suspension into new choreographic modes and contexts. The performance intends to deconstruct skills Tom has learned that are often presented as momentary or virtuosic and re-present them as acts of corporeal contemplation and choreography.

By dissecting the capabilities of Tom’s body and a relationship with the thresholds of what is possible, true and real this work asks what are the political implications of embodying illusion in the 21st century?

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HOT IN HeRe by SAY

HOT in HeRe offers a bold, slick, and seductive experience that takes the principles of a highly successful stage show celebrating male bodies and transferring it to a cast of female and nonbinary performers while maintaining a masculine edge. This production allows the performers to reclaim the concept of being ‘hot’ in a manner traditionally associated with men, challenging and redefining societal norms around sexuality and performance.

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Mathroo Basha by Hetain Patel

Following the passing of a number of first-generation immigrants in his family, British-born Hetain reflects on what is lost and what is transformed, revisiting rituals rooted in his family’s working-class Brit-Gujarati experience.

Responding physically to audio interviews of women from his family speaking in Gujarati about inheritance, loss and the future, Hetain delves into the emotional realities of generational change through personal movement explorations where his body becomes the conduit. Find out more about Mathroo Basha here.

About the Artists

Jo Bannon
Jo is an artist working in performance, choreography and film. Her practice is concerned with how our specific bodies, identities and sensory perceptions impact how we experience the world around us. How this sensory experience can or cannot be conveyed. Her work is informed by her identity as a disabled-woman with albinism and attempts to unpick the ways we look, hear and sense our immediate environment in order to rethink or make unfamiliar these intrinsic human behaviours. Bannon’s work is led by form, it manifests in various mediums including intimate encounters designed for single or small audiences, staged performance, dance, film and installation.

jobannon.co.uk

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Tom Cassani

Tom is a UK based performance maker working with choreography, magic and live art. Tom’s practice draws on an expanded approach to Performance Magic. Using the body as a site of deception Tom’s work explores the construct of performing the impossible. 

tomcassani.com

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SAY

SAY was founded by Sarah Golding and Yukiko Masui in 2019. As a duo they have created a dance film SAY: AF with Dance Umbrella, have recently been featured dancers in The Marvels and were dance captains and performers in the Commonwealth Opening Ceremony 2022. SAY was commissioned to create a piece for NDCWales, SAY Something which toured nationally and internationally. SAY have recently worked on The Effect at the National Theatre and The Shed, NY and Romeo & Juliet starring Tom Holland directed by Jamie Lloyd at Duke of York’s Theatre as Movement Directors.

yukikomasui.com/say