Press Release: Philippe Decouflé’s new musical and visual comedy CONTACT, UK premiere at Sadler’s Wells, 16 – 18 June

[Jan McNulty]

UK PREMIERE
Philippe Decouflé Company DCA
CONTACT
Sadler’s Wells, EC1R
Tuesday 16 – Thursday 18 June 
Performances: Tue – Thu at 7.30pm
Tickets: £12 - £32
Ticket Office: 0844 412 4300 or www.sadlerswells.com

 

Philippe Decouflé’s new musical and visual comedy CONTACT receives its UK premiere at Sadler’s Wellsfrom Tuesday 16 – Thursday 18 June 2015. 

 

CONTACT is the culmination of Decouflé’s trademark cinematographic prowess and his fragmented sense of trickery and illusion, expressed through a troupe of sixteen dancers, actors, singers and musicians.

 

A creator of dreamlike performances, Decouflé finds inspiration in both high and popular culture and challenges expectations with the use of the burlesque and the bizarre. In CONTACT, he rewrites what the musical means, telling a tale of human – and sometimes superhuman passions - borrowing from cabarets, musicals and Bollywood.

The score has been created by Nosfell and Pierre Le Bourgeois, and is described as “an opera from another world”.

 

Parisian born Decouflé is an artist trained in mime, bodily expression, circus and dance. He has been trained by the likes of Isaac Alvarez, Annie Fratellini, Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais. Born in 1961, Decouflé’s artistic career has spanned over three decades. He founded his dance company DCA in 1983, and went on to create an award-winning piece Codex, which led to his work being placed on the international stage in 1992 with his staging of the opening and closing ceremonies of the winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France. His unique blend of dance, circus and film has become world renowned and he has used his directing and choreographic skills across a variety of art forms on stage and on screen. He also created and directed the Cirque du Soleil show Iris.

 

 

 

Notes to Editors:

Listings information

Philippe Decouflé Company DCA
CONTACT
Sadler’s Wells, EC1R
Tuesday 16 – Thursday 18 June 2015
Performances: Tue – Thu at 7.30pm
Tickets: £12 - £32
Ticket office: 0844 412 4300 / www.sadlerswells.com

 

About Sadler’s Wells

Sadler's Wells is a world leader in contemporary dance, committed to producing, commissioning and presenting new works and to bringing the very best international and UK dance to London and worldwide audiences. Under the Artistic Directorship of Alistair Spalding the theatre’s acclaimed year-round programme spans dance of every kind, from contemporary to flamenco, Bollywood to ballet, salsa to street dance and tango to tap. Since 2005 it has helped to bring over 90 new dance works to the stage and its international award-winning commissions and collaborative productions regularly tour the world. Sadler’s Wells supports 16 appointed world class Associate Artists and 3 Resident Companies and nurtures the next generation of talent through its National Youth Dance Company, Summer University programme, Wild Card initiative and its New Wave Associates.

 

Located in Islington in north London, the current theatre is the sixth to have stood on the site since it was first built by 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 all having started at Sadler’s Wells.

 

Sadler’s Wells is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation and currently receives approximately 9% of its revenue from Arts Council England.