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KOMPANY MALAKHI / Image: Boxin / Photographer: Mark Simmons

Image: Boxin
Photographer: Mark Simmons

KOMPANY MALAKHI

Interdisciplinary|Dance theatre|Physical theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
Varies

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Kwesi Johnson
Executive Director
Joanne Peters

ARTISTIC POLICY
Kompany Malakhi is an innovative interdisciplinary company whose work seeks to challenge and deconstruct preconceptions through fresh and exciting physical language. Kompany Malakhi’s productions bring together influences from physical theatre, hip hop culture, and contemporary dance. The company offers a unique and unexpected performance style and attracts a young, diverse audience to both its theatre and site-specific productions.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
A dance force to be reckoned with.
Newcastle Journal
Hunt them down. Cheeky, emphatic and totally off the wall.
Dance Europe
Kwesi Johnson’s Kompany Malakhi brings together the most innovative and interactive theatre…in eons to the stage…truly compelling.
The New Nation

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Boxin
Boxin literally breaks down obstructions by using physical theatre, dance, hip hop culture, and parkour. The set becomes the sixth performer, creating an ever-changing landscape as a metaphor for social barriers in 21st century society.
80 mins, including interval, 5 on stage, 9 on the road
Single Reflex
Another dream date shatters and twists into recurring patterns of tragedy. Funk styles, Physical Theatre, provocative imagery, ricochet between real and surreal, comic and tragic. A haunting serenade of dance theatre.
19 minutes (no interval), 1 on stage, 4 on the road. Needs load test rigging point for aerial work
Body Language
A TV salesman struggles with reality and is consumed by his invention: the 20 inch screen plasma dream. Film and physical theatre combine to portray the search for truth in the age of information
29 minutes (no interval), 1 on stage, 4 on the road.

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Rotations
Rotations will bring together flatland BMX riders, and B-boys to explore the exchange and transposition of vocabulary between bike and bodies. A series of ramps and platforms, will allow dynamic multi-level movement.
2 on Stage, 2 on the road

WRAP-AROUND
Kompany Malakhi provides workshops, residencies, masterclasses, post-performance discussions, and lecture demonstrations. The majority of  wrap-around activity can be adapted to suit age ranges 13+ and Kompany Malakhi can work with both an amateur and professional audience.
Workshops and residencies include the vocabulary and dance styles that Kompany Malakhi employ in their work.

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Single Reflex and Body Language – available to tour
Boxin – available to tour spring and autumn 2009
Rotations – available to tour summer 2009