With a cast of 6 dancers and 40 chairs, Portrait with Group and Duck highlights the extremities of human interaction and relations. Events evolve from the formal and self-conscious environment of a social gathering to shameless but liberating excitement, triggered by a televised confession.
Portrait with Group and Duck toured nationally and internationally for 3 years, as part of double bills with either Protein’s Duel or On The Couch, or with other companies work. It was performed in major festivals around Europe, shortlisted for the Rencontres Choreographiques De Seine-Saint-Denis (Bagnolet competition) and presented at British Dance Edition 2000 in Newcastle.
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Reviews
“Highly energetic and side-splittingly funny” Tanz Der Dinge (Switzerland)
“If laughter really is the best therapy, Protein should charge you by the hour” Metro
“Protein Dance brings the Resolution! Season to a triumphant end. (…) Company dynamics are winning here, the dancers work so well together that they are as convincing as characters in a soup opera” Josephine Leaske
Production Credits
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Tour History
Pré-des-Druides, Lausanne, Switzerland
10 & 11 July 2001 part of Festival de la Cité
The Corn Exhange, Newbury
28 June 2001
Braithewaite Hall, Croydon Clock Tower, Croydon
15 June 2001 part of Dance Mania
Richmond Theatre, London
1 April 2001 part of Leap into Dance
Town Hall Studio, Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe
30 March 2001
Rhoda McGraw Theatre, Woking
23 March 2001 part of Woking Dance Umbrella
Rotherham Arts Centre, Rotherham
5 December 2000
Battersea Arts Centre, London
17 November 2000 part of Wandsworth Arts Festival
Pavilion Theatre, Brighton Dome, Brighton
16 November 2000
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
15 November 2000
Bluecoat, Liverpool
10 November 2000
Arnolfini, Bristol
2 November 2000
Bonnie Bird Theatre, Laban Centre, London
25 & 26 October 2000 part of Connect
Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
16 October 2000
Theater Am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin, Germany
17-19 August 2000 part of Tanz Im August (London in 3D, triple bill with Akram Kahn and Jeremy James Company)
The Place, London
30 May 2000 part of Spring Loaded (triple bill with Benji Reid and Badejo Arts)
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
30 April & 2 May 2000 part of Junge Hunde
Kanonhallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
11 March 2000 part of Junge Hunde
Tanzhaus Wasserwerk, Zürich, Switzerland
25-27 February 2000
The Space, London
19 February 2000
Swindon Dance, Swindon
18 February 2000 part od Dance Mix (double bill with Henri Oguike Company)
Lipman Theatre, Newcastle
12 February 2000 part of British Dance Edition
Phoenix Arts, Leicester
9 February 2000 (double bill with Sean Tuan John)
Piscines B. Picornell, Barcelona, Spain
25 July 1999 part of Dies de Dansa
Teatro della Luna, Polverigi, Italy
9 July 1999 part of Inteatro
GDK Gavella Theatre, Zagreb, Croatia
07 June 1999 part of 16th Dance Week Festival (double bill with JVC)
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