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You & Us | Cathy Waller Company

Fri 17 Apr
Tickets from £18, Concessions from £14 and Support DanceEast ticket £25
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Emotive. Physical. Transformative.

Through a double bill of film and live dance, You & Us offers a powerful reflection on invisibility, revealing stories usually kept out of sight and placing them centre stage. Cathy Waller, former DanceEast Associate Artist, is delighted to present You & Us tonight as part of a UK tour.

The show begins with her award-winning film You are also Us, filmed using drones in striking locations across Dorset and fresh from international touring success. A new live work follows after a brief pause, and the evening concludes with a post-show discussion featuring Cathy and a member of the company.

The work asks why we hide parts of ourselves to fit in, and what it might mean to be fully seen. What began with Cathy’s personal experience of invisible disability grew into a collaboration with hundreds of people, unravelling stories that touch on identity, culture and belonging. The work features an original score by MOBO Award-winning composer Lewis Wright.

In the foyer, Unseen | Unmasked, a photographic exhibition by The1Harris, continues the conversation, alongside a short film created with local communities at The Hive, Ipswich.

 

SHOW INFORMATION

LIVE DANCE

Featuring a powerful contemporary dance work brought to life by five remarkable performers against a pulsating soundtrack, You & Us is an emotionally charged live dance performance that channels extraordinary physical power against an original, pulsing soundtrack created by MOBO award winning Lewis Wright. Using Cathy Waller’s signature movement style to capture the extraordinary qualities of her company performers, the show draws on experiences from over 400 people who worked with the company to explore ‘invisibility’ and what it means to really be seen.

FILM

You are Also Us is a short dance film directed by Cathy Waller and performed by 15 dancers. It was filmed using ground-breaking drone technology in stunning National Trust locations around Dorset. The film has been shown in film festivals internationally, picking up awards and honourable mentions.

EXHIBITION

Unseen | Unmasked is a powerful photographic exhibition by Harris (The1Harris), commissioned by Cathy Waller Company. Through these portraits, Harris shares experiences of Neurodivergence, including his own, in order to unmask identity and perception. The exhibition reveals what is usually hidden, challenging assumptions about identity and perception.

The Hive project

Cathy Waller has been visiting The Hive, a grassroots community interest company based in Ipswich, for the last couple of weeks alongside a filmmaker, facilitating conversations about “home”, linking in with the themes of invisibility and identity in Cathy’s You & Us double bill. The short film will capture these conversations and capture the people at the heart of The Hive, reflecting who they are as an organisation. The film will be shown on loop on the big screen in DanceEast’s foyer next Friday as part of Cathy’s exhibition, alongside striking photography by The1Harris.

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