Our recent recommendations for The Mount Without
A standout new piece from British-Guyanese choreographer Owen Ridley-DeMonick, premiering as part of Impermanence’s fortnight-long dance-theatre festival, The Body. Caliban’s Dream uses The Tempest’s monstrified anti-hero as a springboard for a reclamation tale that examines dispossessed selfhood and the legacy of colonial violence. Transcendent.
Caliban's Dream at The Mount Without.
Karla Shacklock’s autobiographical dance-theatre piece takes a one-woman lactivist leap into the many myths, social stigmas and divisive debates which surround the world of infant feeding. A heartfelt and deeply personal work, Niplash moves with humour, authenticity, compassion… and confetti.
NIPLASH at The Mount Without.
A performance piece from artist Hetain Patel, Mathroo Basha (Mother Tongue) traverses dance, voice, and personal history to reflect on immigration and the ways traditions shift over time. Patel responds to recorded Gujarati-language interviews with women from his own family, using movement to explore what is passed down between generations after loss.
IMPERMANENCE Presents... Acclaimed visual artist and filmmaker Hetain Patel's latest work which uses movement and audio interviews to explore generational change across his Brit-Gujarati family.
Scottish choreographer Colette Sadler imagines a post-human world in dance fiction Learning From the Future. Human bodies are vanishing as a futuristic female cyborg moves through a sci-fi landscape shaped by accelerating data and dematerialising flesh – an exploration of how we adapt, resist, and assert ourselves even as we fade.
A Post-Human Dance Fiction by Colette Sadler
Free entry! Tactile body horrors and uncanny architectural echoes crawl out of the subconscious of Bristol-based artist Honoria Brown and into The Mount Without’s subterranean Crypt. Her new exhibition of surreal oil paintings are born from four years of vivid dreaming, painstakingly transcribed into mysterious worlds on canvas.
Opening event at the Crypt, featuring live music and bar.