SIZE OF COMPANY
2–4 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Medium. Minimum height 5m

PERMANENT STAFF
Performer
Matilda Leyser
Producer
Simon Chatterton

ARTISTIC POLICY
Matilda Leyser uses a combination of dramatic and circus techniques to create powerful contemporary performance imbued with warmth, wit, and personality. Her pieces are inspired by the poetic potential within aerial performance, demonstrating its ability to physically manifest many of the metaphors through which we describe human experience. The performer is perceived as human and vulnerable, rather than as a super-human performing circus ‘tricks’.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Her performance is a revelation…performed with subtlety and clarity…immaculately conceived and timed to perfection.
The Times (Lifeline)
Combining subtle theatricality, emotive expression and super skilled aerial tricks, a beautiful and touching piece - lively, mesmeric and sensitively portrayed.
The Stage (Lifeline)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Lifeline
From birth to death, an entire lifeline acted out on a single, suspended rope. Matilda Leyser’s poignant and poetic production depicts this most human of dramas with unique and amazing skill.
Line, Point, Plane
This full-length solo aerial-theatre piece, brings together highly-respected collaborators from the world of theatre and dance including directors Andrew Dawson, Annabel Arden and Annie Castledine, choreographer Rosemary Lee and writer Bryony Lavery.

WRAP-AROUND
Matilda has taught all ages and abilities; offering workshops in theatre and circus-theatre, contact improvisation, aerial skills and alexander technique

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
Performances of Lifeline and Dead Point in Hanoi and Hue, Vietnam, Angers and Perigueux, France and Brussels, Belgium
Corde lisse, tissu and movement workshops for Fabrik International Dance Festival, Potsdam. (2002)
Several Stories High, showing of research project directed by Marcello Magni at Fabrik in Potsdam, Germany (2002)
Research Project, Fallen, with Fabrik Dance Co., Potsdam, Germany and Aerial-Dance co. Gravity Productions, San Francisco, working towards the creation of new work. (2001)
Telling Times, international, mixed media company, dedicated to researching improvisation in performance.
One month residency in Estonia 1996
Three month residency at Fabrik Theatre, Potsdam, Germany 1995.

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Lifeline: Available on ongoing basis
Line, Point, Plane: available subject to touring plans