Four UK theatre groups took part at the Teatro a Corte festival in July, which features theatre and dance in Turin and Piemonte.

Me and the Machine
Billy Cowie
Protein Dance with their performance LOL. See more about their international work with us
Claire Cunningham

We present a new short film, dedicated to Claire Cunningham, and another dedicated to Billy Cowie, these are part of a series focused on British contemporary dance shot during the Festival Teatro a Corte, in Turin, July 2012.
After these two shorts, another one will be published dedicated to Luca Silvestrini, an Italian choreographer based in London with his company Protein DanceClaire Cunningham, a multi-disciplinary performer and choreographer based in Glasgow, was one of the British artists appearing at the Festival Teatro a Corte, in Turin in July 2012.

7 MINUTES WITH CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM
author and director Francesca Pedroni, introduction Alison Driver
In her touching and intelligent work "Me (Mobile / Evolution)" she dances with her crutches, recounting us her story and introducing the audience to her original and personal aesthetic as a performer. She offers her public a different way of looking at disable people, enabling us to discover the beauty and the truth of the difference and skill of dancing in a "four legged style", as Bill Shannon, a maitre in dancing with crutches, and Claire call it, without self-pity but virtuosity and humour.

8 MINUTES WITH BILLY COWIE
Scottish artist, writer and choreographer Billy Cowie has been working on a series of groundbreaking stereoscopic dance installations that bring the projected dancer(s) from the screen into the same space as the viewer. This allows the spectator a close-up and intimate experience of the choreography while maintaining the corporeal presence and physicality of a live performance.

The British Council's Edinburgh Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
The British Council's Edinburgh Showcase is a biennial platform of contemporary UK performance featuring some of the most outstanding small and middle-scale touring productions, made in the UK, and selected by the British Council from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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Unlimited - the largest ever celebration and exploration of disability arts and a major element within the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
Watch latest Akram Khan's performance on Youtube (recordered at Festival RomaEuropa)

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