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Image: Shifty
Photographer: Johan Persson

	GRAVITY & LEVITY


	Aerial performance\|Contemporary circus\|Contemporary dance

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Lindsey Butcher
Producer
Emma Haughton

ARTISTIC POLICY
Gravity & Levity was founded in 2003 by dancer and aerialist, Lindsey Butcher, to explore the creative and expressive potential of aerial dance.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Woman and wood whirl round each other like lovers, and with such beauty and precision that it catches at the heartstrings.
The Times
To a chilled soundtrack by Daniel Weaver, Butcher curls beneath the timber, somnolent, graceful and concentrated. It’s not a stunt, it’s a love story.
The Sunday Times
A floating exploration of physical human poetry by exquisitely effortless dancers...They soared as masters of the element.
Southern Daily Echo

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
SHIFT: An evening of aerial performance fusing contemporary dance, circus and live music in a sculptural set. 3 sections, choreographed by Charlotte Vincent, Charles Linehan and Luke Cresswell & Steve McNicholas.
6 dancers, 2 crew, 70 mins
Why? A driven and fierce aerial dance duet on a vertical wall. Power and strength are juxtaposed with ease and surrender. Performed indoors or outdoors.
2 dancers, 1 crew, 20 mins
Reinventing the Wheel: Propelled in a giant wheel, two dancers are lifted into seemingly impossible moments of suspension forcing split second timing, sensitive counterbalance, play, and a huge amount of trust.
2 dancers, 1 crew, 20 mins

WRAP-AROUND
Gravity & Levity’s performing company comprises some of the UK’s finest specialist teachers and offers a broad, accessible and ambitious programme workshops, residencies and after-show discussions that can be based around specific dance and aerial techniques, collaborative process of making work, be creative or equipmen-based and can form a one-off event or work towards an ongoing project.