Press Release: Pepa Ubera and Josefina Camus, Ellipsis Land, Lilian Baylis Studio, Thursday 2 & Friday 3 November 2017

[Jan McNulty]

UK PREMIERE
Pepa Ubera and Josefina Camus
Ellipsis Land
Lilian Baylis Studio, EC1R
Thursday 2 - Saturday 4 November 2017
Performances: Thu - Sat at 8pm
Tickets: £17
Ticket Office: 020 7863 8000 or www.sadlerswells.com

 

“The kind of cryptic that intrigues rather than bewilders” Dance Tabs

 

Following the success of Pepa Ubera’s Wild Card event in Spring 2016, she returns to the Lilian Baylis Studio with a development of the duet Ellipsis Land, most recently performed at Tate Modern as part of the BMW Tate Live Exhibition Ten Days Six Nights in March 2017.

 

Ellipsis Land becomes a full evening of work premiering at the Lilian Baylis Studio from Thursday 2 - Saturday 4 November 2017. Bringing together movement, video and sound it is co-created by London-based dancers and choreographers Pepa Ubera and Josefina Camus.

 

This dynamic and sensorial work is an opportunity to explore the relationship between the body and the technology surrounding it, the virtual and the physical realm. Ubera and Camus invite the audience to consider the body as a container of energy in a sensorial set up, heightening our perceptions. The work looks at how we've adapted the way we approach and apprehend our environment, embracing a new reality where our nervous system is in connection with the technological world we live ever more closely with.

 

Ellipsis Land features an original sound score by East London based sound artist Simone Salvaticci, creating an ambient immersive landscape, aiming to awaken unnoticed connections between the concrete and the digital worlds. The work also features lighting design by Antony Hateley and dramaturgy by Soren Evinson.

 

Originally from a classical background, Ubera trained in Spain before moving to London to study at London Contemporary Dance School. For the past ten years, she has worked as a freelance dancer and choreographer with a variety of artists both in the UK and abroad (Nicola Conibere, Joe Moran, Jose Vidal, Yolanda Gutierrez). Most recently, she presented work at Tate Modern, NOW Gallery and Wilderness Festival (2017), Barbican Botanics Gardens (2016) Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015) and Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre (Mirror City 2014, in collaboration with TripSpace Projects). She performs and choreographs for 30 Bird Productions, Secret Cinema and with music band Bunty Looping (Battersea Arts Centre, 2015). In July 2015, Ubera was selected as one of 21 new participants to attend Sadler’s Wells Summer University over four years. Led by choreographer Jonathan Burrows, the programme is aimed at dance artists active in their field at the earlier stages of their career.

 

Between 2013 and 2015, Ubera was a core member of TripSpace Projects, an artist run dance space in East London, where she was one of the curators, helping launch the venue as a key place for innovation in the independent dance scene. In March 2016 Uberacurated Wild Card: The Palest Light, a night of performance at the Lilian Baylis Studio as part of Sadler’s Wells’ programme of support for emerging dance talent. Ubera and Josefina Camus also presented work at The Tanks as part of the BMW Tate Live Exhibition earlier in 2017. Sadler’s Wells also presented a work in progress of Ubera’s latest project at Wilderness Festival in August 2017.

 

Camus is a Chilean dancer and choreographer now based in London. Through studies in literature and dance, she has developed her experience in dance, performance and visual arts in different countries, collaborating with local artists. Her live performances in Chile include Distancia 100 (2009) and La Fiesta de los Canibales (2012). In 2013 she moved to Paris, where she has been creating different projects such as Démensions (2013-2014), Silenthingks (2014) and Pair cussives (2015). Camus is currently finishing her master’s degree in Dance in Université Paris 8. She has been working and collaborating with Uberasince 2014.

 

Free post-show talk on Thursday 2 November

 

 

Notes to Editors

Listings information
Pepa Ubera and Josefina Camus
Ellipsis Land
Lilian Baylis Studio, EC1R
Thursday 2 - Saturday 4 November 2017
Performances: Thu - Sat at 8pm
Tickets: £17 
Ticket Office: 020 7863 8000 or www.sadlerswells.com

 

ABOUT SADLER’S WELLS
Sadler’s Wells is a world-leading creative organisation dedicated to dance in all its forms. With over three centuries of theatrical heritage and a year-round programme of performances and learning activities, its goal is to motivate everyone to experience dance – to take part, learn, experiment and be inspired. Audiences of over half a million come to Sadler’s Wells’ London theatres each year, with many more enjoying its touring productions at partner venues across the UK and around the world, or accessing its content through digital channels. 

Sadler’s Wells commissions and presents more new dance work than any other theatre in the world, embracing the popular and the unknown. Since 2005, it has helped to bring over 140 new dance works to the stage, many of them involving its 16 Associate Artists, three Resident Companies and four Associate Companies – the most exciting talents working in dance today. It also nurtures the next generation of talent through its artist development initiatives, and reaches over 25,000 annually through its learning and engagement programmes

Located in Islington, north London, the current theatre is the sixth to have stood on the site since it was first built by entrepreneur Richard Sadler in 1683. The venue has played an illustrious role in the history of theatre ever since with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and English National Opera having all started at Sadler’s Wells. Sadler’s Wells is a charity and a National Portfolio Organisation, currently receiving 10% of its revenue from Arts Council England.

 

ABOUT WILD CARD
Wild Card is a unique initiative providing a glimpse of the rich variety of work that makes up the current dance landscape. Increasingly popular with audiences and artists alike, Wild Card opens the stage to an exciting and adventurous community of dance makers, giving a broad range of artists the unique opportunity to curate their own programmes of dance. These specially curated evenings feature exploratory approaches to choreography and combine different mediums, broadening audiences’ perspectives on dance made today.

Wild Card is part of Sadler’s Wells’ programme of support for young and emerging dance talent, alongside other initiatives including the New Wave Associates programme, Sadler’s Wells Summer University and hosting the National Youth Dance Company.

ABOUT SADLER’S WELLS SUMMER UNIVERSITY
Launched in 2010 through an open call, Sadler's Wells Summer University supports the development of professional dance artists interested in extending their practice. The first edition of the project ran successfully in 2010-2014 and Sadler’s Wells is now mid-way through the second edition which runs 2015-2018. Summer University offers dance professionals the chance to take part in a four year project, meeting for two weeks each year to share work, hear talks, explore methodologies and philosophies of performance making and extend their own practice through self-study and focussed interventions. The current Summer University artists are: Kwame Asafo-Adjei, Neil Callaghan, Theo Clinkard, Katye Coe, Nicola Conibere, James Cousins, Dan Daw, Antonio de la Fe, Adrienne Hart, Alexandrina Hemsley, Stefan Jovanovic, Stephanie McMann, Joe Moran, Patricia Okenwa, Katerina Paramana, Eva Recacha, Alesandra Seutin, Charlotte Spencer, Pepa Ubera and Marquez Zangs.