Featuring a cast of community performers from across the Royal Borough of Greenwich, En Route Together united artists, musicians & local people in an outdoor experience across Woolwich.
The cinematic outdoor performance emerged from the historic setting of St George’s Garrison Church crossing streets and squares on its way to the Royal Arsenal. Audiences were swept up in 360 vision of a community on the move as dance, storytelling and live music unfolded all around them.
Joining Protein’s dancers and musicians, sustainable street band Pulsar UK, Emma Bond’s choir Sing Together and community dancers from Dancing to the Music of Time (Trinity Laban).
"Beautiful, dreamlike trance of colours, heartbeat pounding and electric energy. From tranquil serenity to flowing into a family hub of familiar friends, dancing by the river." Audience comment
"As it is, En Route Together remains a seasonal opportunity for audiences to unlearn their conditioning in the urban and suburban environments that challenge both nature and human nature." British Theatre Guide
Thank you for creating and sharing a piece of art that truly matters. Political, inspiring, relevant and enlivening!" Audience comment
Simon was raised in rural Essex and trained in contemporary dance in Leeds. Having made his home in places as near as Bristol and as far away as Shanghai, he is now based in London where his passion for theatre work stretches across the realms of movement, acting and puppetry. For Protein, he has performed in The Little Prince and En Route To Common Ground, and has also appeared in several works for both Theatre Rites and Tilted Productions, as a dancer, actor and puppeteer.
Other work includes Sleep No More – Shanghai and The Drowned Man (Punchdrunk),The Little Match Girl and Ten Sorry Tales (Ballo Arthur Pita), Betrayal: A Polyphonic Crime Drama (I Fagiolini), Mucky Pup (Theatre Alibi), Benvenuto Cellini (Terry Gilliam/ENO). He has worked with Secret Cinema, Tom Roden, Lucy Suggate, Fleur Darkin, Sweetshop Revolution, Hannah Buckley, Shobana Jeyasingh, Kim Brandstrup, and Hofesh Schecter.
Rachele Rapisardi graduated from CODARTS (NL) and then relocated to London where she joined EDge11. Since leaving EDge Rachele has worked with companies and independent choreographers such as Lost Dog (Ben Duke), Luca Silvestrini’s Protein, ilDance, Clod Ensemble, Gwyn Emberton Dance, Emma Martin Dance, Theo Clinkard, Quang Kien Van, Emanuel Gat, Jorge Crecis, Jose Agudo, James Finnemore, Christopher Evans and Neus Gil Cortes, spanning across the UK, Sweden, Israel and Ireland. Since obtaining her MA in Performing Arts in 2015, Rapisardi has been also developing her freelance career as a teacher, rehearsal director and associate director in particular with Protein Dance.
Work with Luca Silvestrini’s Protein (2014 onwards): As a performer Rachele has been part of Invisible Dancing (2014-2018). As a teacher and co-leader she has been working with professionals and students (from GCSE to MA) as part of Protein’s educational programme for Border Tales in 2017-2018. As an Associate Director in 2018 for the rural touring of ʻMay Contain food, May Contain Youʼ in theatres, community halls and care homes.
She has also been very involved co-leading and delivering community-based projects as part of Protein’s RLRD programme ‘There and Here’ 2015 – performance with refugees and asylum seekers from the Islington Centre in London. ‘XOXO’ (2016) and ‘These is Us’ (2017, 2019) – performances with Pupils in Referral Units (PRU) in South East London and Stockton-on-Tees
Lauren is a London-born and based dance artist. She began her dance training at The BRIT School specialising in performing arts. After this, she went on to train at The Place on the BA (hons) course, studying contemporary dance. Deciding to explore her practice further, she continued at The Place, completing an MA on the postgraduate course EDGE in 2021.
Since graduating Lauren has been freelancing in the UK. So far she’s delighted to have worked on a range of projects including: Starving Dingoes - Lea Tirabasso, Chicken Teriyaki - Rosalía X Holly Blakey, Leaders of a New Regime - Corey Baker X United Nations X Nowness, WE HAPPY BUT WE BROKEN - Malik Nashad Sharpe and the 2022 Commonwealth opening ceremony.
Born in London, Antony began performing in works by Royston Maldoom and Rosemary Lee for the Dance Umbrella festival. He then went on to train at the Centre for Advanced Training and subsequently at London Contemporary Dance School, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree.
He has performed in original works by Pell Ensemble (800 Lifetimes, UR: Human Presence, Locus), Gwyn Emberton Dance Company (Raft. Nominated for ‘Best Production’ and ‘Best Choreographer’), Didy Veldman, Kerry Nicholls and he danced in Crystal Pite’s Polaris as part of Thomas Adés: See the Music, Hear the Dance at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Antony also has an interest in design and is a self-taught costume designer.
Matthew has been working as a professional dancer and movement practitioner for the past 18 years. He began working with Protein dance in 2012, notably performing in (In)visible Dancing and May Contain Food. In his most recent work with the company, Matthew completed a rural tour of the duet May Contain Food, May Contain You.
His training began at Laban, where he completed his degree with first class honours. He then spent a year at London Contemporary Dance School as a member of EDge, performing works by Trisha Brown, Ben Wright and Kerry Nicholls. After graduating, Matthew went on to work with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, Bare Bones dance company, and was a founding member of Ben Wright’s company, Bgroup. He has also worked with Liam Steele and Robert Tannion in their company Stan Won’t Dance, performed in operas at home and abroad, taught a series of classes and workshops in China, and completed his MA at London Contemporary Dance School. In recent years he has worked extensively Casson and Friends, and later this year will continue his work on Sleuth with Zoie Logic Dance Theatre– an interactive film Noir detective story. He has just completed his training to become a certified Franklin Method practitioner.
George is a London based saxophonist, composer, arranger & improviser.
Previously, he was Musical Director for Protein’s Invisible Dancing (2019) & En Route (2021).
George can be heard playing a diverse range of jazz and improvised music
around the UK as either bandleader or sideman. He writes and performs original
contemporary music with his band Ideasthesia and experimental co-led
guitar/saxophone project Solmonath. Past performances include Ronnie Scott’s,
Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Snape Maltings and Cafe OTO.
He is an alumnus of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
(2017-2021), Aldeburgh Young Musicians (2014-17) and currently works with the
National Youth Jazz Orchestra (2020 – present). He offers private woodwind and
improvisation tuition and is available for gigs, recordings and compositional
commissions.
Laura completed an MMus in Jazz Trombone at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance 2020 with Distinction, during which she regularly performed in venues such as Ronnie Scotts with Mark Lockheart’s Contemporary Big Band, and various other smaller jazz ensembles. Laura plays in a plethora of other musical projects and genres including Barnacles, an experimental jazz quintet, and Latin Jazz ensemble The Voodoo Love Orchestra. She has toured with the renowned Giffords Circus, where she played trombone in their orchestra, and runs 11-piece afro-jazz band Yamäya that recently reached the final 8 bands (out of 5600 entries) in the Glastonbury emerging talent competition.
Laura has just received the Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice grant to explore her own contemporary jazz compositions and to continue studying under various renowned UK trombonists and composers.
Trumpet player Celeste Cantor-Stephens plays music that focuses on the creative and exploratory,
embracing a range of practices and traditions, from klezmer to jazz to free improvisation. She is
also a composer, writer and educator-facilitator. Balancing practice and academia, Celeste has
studied widely, including with trumpeter-composer Dave Douglas, at institutions such as the
Conservatoire de Caen (Normandy) and the Creative Music Studio (NY), and gaining postgraduate
degrees from Oxbridge universities.
Celeste is deeply committed to developing the relationship between music and work that is socially
and politically engaged, with human experience at its centre. She focuses, in particular, on human
displacement and borders, and on radical approaches to education, using creative, interdisciplinary
approaches as an expressive, human-led means of exploring and confronting.
Anna is a versatile and creative freelance Tuba player and educator based in London. Graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2019 with a degree in Classical Performance, Anna has been fortunate enough to play with orchestras, ensembles and bands in prestigious venues across Europe.
Although specialising in Classical Tuba, Anna also has a keen interest in jazz, experimental and contemporary music and enjoys having the opportunity to experience new genres and musical challenges.
Josh first performed in Ronnie Scott’s aged 15 with a Ronnie Scott’s Big Band project. Since then, he has increasingly found inspiration in the streets of London. He has since had the opportunity to work with inspirational players, such as Sam Leak, The Andrew Linham Jazz orchestra, Jakub Klimiuk, Louise Balkwill, Sam Norris, George Garford, Harry Brunt, Dan McConkey, Hugh Pascall, Huw v Williams, Will James and many more.
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Woolwich
26-28 July, 2024
More About The Show
First performed in 2021 as Protein’s first public performance after the pandemic, En Route was an opportunity to share collective space and connect as the world moved out of isolation. In 2022 the production returned as En Route to Common Ground, part of Greenwich and Docklands International Festival.
En Route Together introduced an ensemble of local performers. Joining Protein’s dancers and musicians were members of sustainable street band Pulsar UK, singers and actors from Emma Bond’s choir Sing Together and community dancers from Dancing to the Music of Time.
Protein would like to mention the people who have supported this project from its inception: former Executive Director’s Lou Allen, Anna Arthur, Franck Bordese; former Protein Staff Emma Baker-Griffin, and Becky David; Velia Papa, Alessia Ercoli and everyone at Marche Teatro; Jane Downes at Woolwich Common Community Centre; Diane Mason at the Royal Artillery Barracks; colleagues from Woolwich Works; Janine Whittaker, Steve Cox, David Medford at Royal Borough of Greenwich Council; Kay Oldroyd at Berkeley Homes; Ruth Dodson and Tim Barnes from St. George’s Garrison Church.
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