Threads

A cross-cutting reading of the repertoire — by ideas and obsessions rather than dates.

• Real time & technologyImage, gesture and voice transformed live: sensors, video, electronics and generated imagery become stage material.4
• Post-human & memoryWorlds where the human is no longer the centre: objects, machines and images that remember in our place. What remains, and what remembers, when we are gone.3
• Memory & politicsPower, history and resistance: real or fictional figures questioning responsibility, violence and freedom.5
• Voice & textWriting at the heart of the stage: librettos, authors and the spoken word as musical material, from Christine Angot to Pasolini.4
• Body & presencePerformance, gesture and presence as act — from the solo to the body among objects and machines.5