Unlimited
Private Dancer| Leaving Limbo Landing | Fusional Fragments | Snails & Ketchup | Ménage à Trois
Comprising of 29 major commissions, Unlimited is the UK’s largest programme celebrating arts, culture and sport by disabled and deaf people. Unlimited commissions have been awarded a total of £1.9 million of funding across the arts, as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
The programme encourages collaborations and partnerships between disability arts organisations, disabled and deaf artists, producers, and mainstream organisations, in order to celebrate the inspiration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and to create original and exciting works.
5 Unlimited commissions have received investment from Creative Scotland:
Private Dancer is a large scale performance event by professional and emergent disabled dancers, performed in and around a real sized luminous ‘house’. The house is purpose built with a series of individual rooms and each solo dancer invites audience members to enter their private performance domain.
As well as the individual pieces, the hour long performance will include disabled and non-disabled dancers performing throughout the structure encouraging audiences to walk and move around the house.
Private Dancer is the result of research and development work which received funding from the Scottish Arts Council’s Disability Arts Open Fund.
Leaving Limbo Landing - Caroline Bowditch
Leaving Limbo Landing is an ambitious new outdoor production in air, in water and on land. Inspired by choreographer Caroline Bowditch’s move from Australia to the UK - as well as the personal stories of 12 East Londoners who have moved to East London or have chosen never to leave - dancers and aerialists will take you on a journey, through limbo to landing.
The performance will tour in Scotland as well as London, Newcastle and other areas of the UK from July – October 2012.
Fusional Fragments - Marc Brew
Choreographer Marc Brew, in partnership with DanceEast, will create a new dance work exploring the concept of fusion of fragments between classical ballet and contemporary dance. Accompanied by original music by Philip Sheppard and acclaimed composer and percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, a cast of six dancers will investigate the difference and influences of the two styles, questioning whether elements can be fused together or if they should remain as fragments in isolation.
Fusional Fragments will be created and presented at DanceEast in Ipswich, The Royal Opera House in London and DanceXchange in Birmingham.
Snails & Ketchup - Ramesh Meyyappan
Inspired by Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees, Snails & Ketchup is the darkly comic tale of a dysfunctional family and follows a son taking to the trees to live an arboreal existence, escaping his brutal home environment for the solace of the forest.
Powerfully told through solo performer Ramesh Meyyappan’s masterful storytelling, it uses physical performance, an ingenious aerial set and aerial choreography together with a dynamic live score to document the lives of a young boy and his sibling, from the traumatic birth of the twins to a typical family dinner...
Ménage à Trois, Claire Cunningham
Ménage à Trois is a physical performance piece conceived and performed by Claire Cunningham that combines dance, puppetry, projection, animation and music.
A beautiful, haunting study about the nature of love, loneliness and the search for a perfect partner, Ménage à Trois has been created in partnership with the National Theatre of Scotland and a team of highly respected collaborators including video artist, Gail Sneddon.
Unlimited is principally funded by the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor and is delivered in partnership between London 2012, Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council.
Creative Scotland has invested £150K in the Unlimited programme.
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