Friday Firsts # 14: Double Act

Curated by Beth Cassani, this evening of work focuses on the idea of choreography that is born out of a particular performance relationship – the Double Act.

Is a danced duet a type of double act?
Is a double act always humorous?
Is choreography an implicit part of a double act relationship?

Some of these partnerships are long-term collaborations. Some have come together to explore this idea for the first time.

Terrorists Of The Heart is a duet by Jules Dorey Richmond and David Richmond – a meditation on parenthood, ageing, grief and loss, as well as a political manifesto with some Morris dancing. It has been said that collaboration is ‘an affair of the mind’. For Jules and David it has been rather more – not only are they long-term artistic partners, but they’re married, and parents.

Oliver Bray and Rachel Krische present Ryan – a dance dance performance / singing work featuring a collision of practices, a few ‘experts’, a beautiful dream and a charity single – God Bless ‘the Movie’.