Liason (come with me)
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London
6–9pm, 25th–26th January
I Hear Voices
Contact Theatre Manchester
20th–23rd February
Choreography and co-direction in collaboration with Shabina Aslam in the re-staging and national tour of a physical theatre production with three emerging spoken-word artists: Martin Stanage, Ben Mellor and Samira Arhin-Acquaah. Sound designer Dan Steele and composer Jason Singh. Commissioned by Contact Theatre Manchester.
Mr Sole Abode
25th February – 4th March, reworking and staging
4th–16th March & 7th–25th May 2008
Restaging and UK tour of Leo’s solo show directed By Benji Reid with design by Faulty optic.
Direction of Ben Mellor’s solo show
Contact Theatre, Manchester
April (dates tbc)
Journey Man
Summer 2008 (tbc)
Choreographer and movement director in a music theatre production about a boxer at the end of his career forced to take a dive. Set in a ring with including aerial and a 9 piece junk band. Artistic director James Fortune (The Magnets), writer Glyn Cannon.
8.16.32
National Tour Autumn 2008 (dates tbc)
Direction and choreography – 8.16.32 is a hip hop theatre (grime theatre) production presented by the Decypher collective’s RT, LCB, Decifer Soundz, Evoke and Roxanne in collaboration with Polar Bear (writer and text coach) and Charlie Dark (project coordinator). First performed in summer 2007 at the Birmingham Base festival – check the De-Cypher trailer. Co-commissioned by the Birmingham Rep and Punch Records.