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In his startling new work Mark Bruce uses theatre-in-the-round and a soundtrack that includes music by Sparklehorse, The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age and György Ligeti, to plunge the imagination into a raw arena of the otherworld.
Time shifts and figures from myth and ritual collide; gods emerge amongst frenzied cheerleaders, murderous strangers, dogs of war and bedraggled homecoming queens, in a heart-searching dance work of savage beauty.
Love and War is the Mark Bruce Company’s latest full-length production since the critically acclaimed Sea of Bones. “Bruce's choreography has never looked more inventive, with classically based moves twisted into ferocious gestures of destruction or strung out into decadent ennui. The dancers are excellent.” The Guardian
The Mark Bruce Company was formed in 1991 as a vehicle for the uncompromising dance theatre of Mark Bruce. The company are newly appointed Associate Artists at the Tobacco Factory Theatre in Bristol and Affiliated Artists of the Merlin Theatre, Frome.
May 7th 8th Bristol Tobacco Factory
May 12th Wellingborough, The Castle
May 14th Liverpool the Black-E
May 18th 19th Frome, Merlin Theatre
May 25th 26th Scarborough, Stephen Joseph Theatre
June 3rd 4th 5th London, The Place
June 18th 19th Sage Gateshead
June 24th 25th Exeter Northcott
July 1st 2nd 3rd Manchester Royal Exchange
July 8th 9th Oxford Playhouse at 02 Academy
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