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PROTEIN DANCE / Image: Dear Body / Photographer: Johan Persson

Image: Dear Body
Photographer: Johan Persson

PROTEIN

Text-based: Medium|Comedy|Dance theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
9–10 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Luca Silvestrini
General Manager
Sarah Trist

ARTISTIC POLICY
Protein Dance creates witty and thought-provoking dance theatre by putting human behaviour under the choreographic microscope. Accessible to a diverse audience, the company's work in theatres and non-theatre spaces blends humour, text, music, and movement, holding up a mirror to our lives and revealing ourselves: warts and all.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
A rib-tickling dissection of the quest for the body beautiful.
Metro (B for Body)
A caustic and comic satire on our obsession with body image.
The Times (B for Body)
A funny, barbed consideration of the dangerous pursuit of beauty and a brightly polished piece of dance theatre.
Time Out (B for Body)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Dear Body
Inspired by B for Body (see below) Dear Body is a witty satire on our fixation with body image, combining innovative choreography, distinctive video animation and dark humour. Protein’s six dancers are joined by an ensemble cast of local amateur performers.
75 minutes (no interval). 18 on stage (including 12 local people); 9 or 10 on the road.
B for Body
B for Body won Luca Silvestrini the Audience Vote in the 2006 Place Prize and performer Sally Marie a Spotlight Award nomination from the Critic’s Circle.
15 mintues, 3 on stage, 4 on the road

WRAP-AROUND
Protein creates exciting opportunities for people from all walks of life to engage with dance as participants in educative and creative projects which are versatile and wide ranging in scale and focus. Protein specialises in socially inclusive dance with hospital patients and children excluded from mainstream education, and cross-generational work.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2005 Canada: Duel    

TOURING AVAILABILITY
January – May 2009; thereafter upon request