SIZE OF COMPANY
2–6 on the road
SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium
PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Directors
Anton Mirto
Alit Kreiz
ARTISTIC POLICY
A2 creates experimental performance and installation projects, exploring new personal, social, and emotional language forms, which aim to interrogate and reflect the human experience. A defining feature of the company’s practice, in both its process and performance work, is to create participatory opportunities, represent and engage people from different ages, cultures and backgrounds. The creative process upon which A2 engage is never less important than the final work and is often integrated in the form itself.
REVIEW EXTRACTS
Mirto and Kreiz expose themselves as generous artists with a special gift. Their bruised, resonant show is a small treasure.
The Times ****
A2’s ideas are strong, their stage poetry even stronger: very like a chance meeting of TS Eliot and Agnes Varda.
Telegraph online (All Those People I Have Met)
A work in progress of uncommon and categorisable intelligence... their performances are, in effect, a kind of living gift.
Dance Europe (Tights 1)
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
The Future of Death
An interrogative performance installation: 40 diverse people, gradually bury each other under earth, following 10day A2 workshops, exploring the inter-relationship between living and dying. Duration 50mins/can contain nudity/contains recorded text
Cast: 40 (recruited on site) crew: 3
Tights/1
A performance installation exploring notions of identity, manipulation and choice: Masked in black tights, stretched into the rigging, two faceless bodies, move in silence to an invisible set of instructions. Duration 15mins/contains nudity/contains recorded text
Cast: 2 crew: 3
FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
About blindness
A live performance, exploring evolutionary details, in a world calling to be noticed beyond the state in which it is currently seen, treated and controlled. A small child involved. Duration currently 30mins to be developed to 50mins
Cast: 4 crew: 6
Tights/2
A performance installation exploring notions of identity, manipulation and choice: Masked in black tights, stretched into the rigging, up to 12 faceless bodies, move in silence to invisible set of instructions. Duration 45mins/contains nudity
Cast: 12 (recruited on site) crew: 3
I would like to say sorry
A performance sound installation - From CD players, whispered apologies are heard, of too many things A2 would like apologize to and for. Updated with time, place, people involved. Duration 45mins
Cast: 2-3 crew: 3-4
WRAP-AROUND
The Future of Death
A 10day workshop residency, leading towards a public installation performance.
Through experimental performance, movement, improvisation, sound, discussion & earth A2 lead 40 diverse local people, to explore - different ways of seeing our shared fear of dying, fears surrounding letting go and how the confrontation of this fear can influence the way we live our lives. Age range 8 upwards/Intergenerational
Can include post-performance discussions / talks for amateur & professional audience alike.
Anton & Alit are generous artists & excellent teachers as well. They question our beliefs, promote self awareness, construct with others a structure for playing, open the space for people to express, are open to uncertainty, lead without pushing, share the leadership, create a group, take risks, play themselves & people learn. Workshop participant
Tights/2
A 15 day movement led workshop residency with up to 12 diverse local people, exploring notions of identity, manipulation and choice, leading towards a public installation performance
Age range 8 upwards/Intergenerational
RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Ljubljana, Slovenia: The Future of Death part III
2008 Barcelona, Spain: Tights/1
2008 Vienna, Austria: The Future of Death part II
2006 Tel-Aviv, Israel: I would like to say sorry
2005 Paris, France: pour le moment toujours sans titre
TOURING AVAILABILITY
The future of death from February onwards
Tights/1 from February onwards
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