A Great Unsettling
by Theo Clinkard | Created with and for MA Dance: Performance
About A Great Unsettling
A Great Unsettling is a large-scale installation event that considers how ambiguity can both absorb and unsettle us. Across four hypnotic hours, the thirty-strong cast edit and reveal each others inner worlds to simulate the slippery and layered complexity of our feeling landscapes; particularly those moments that allude definition. Theo is currently interested in how choreographic work can act as a host for multiple realities to coexist simultaneously, enabling a diversity of perspective and experience for both performer and witness.
For this work, the seating bank is retracted and audience seats line the edge of the stripped out space. Audience are free to arrive, leave and re-enter at any point across the duration. There will be only one ticket sold per seat and seats remain unnumbered to enable different perspectives.
4 StarsThere’s a deceptive simplicity to Theo Clinkard’s choreography. It’s never just about the human shapes on stage – there’s always an emotional dimension in play. ‘This Bright Field’, Clinkard’s most recent work, is full of visual pleasures and surprises, but his overriding preoccupation is with the transmission of feeling.
The Observer on ‘THIS BRIGHT FIELD’
About Theo Clinkard
Theo Clinkard is based in Devon and works internationally as a choreographer, designer, performer, mentor and teacher. Following 20 years working as a dancer, he launched his own company in 2012. Alongside designing and directing company works, his commissions include creations for Tanztheatre Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba & Candoco. Theo is currently developing ‘Village’, a new large-scale installation event commissioned by Sadler’s Wells that draws upon the works of the Flemish painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Theo is an Associate Artist at Brighton Dome & Festival and an Honorary Fellow at Plymouth University.
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Cast and Credits
Director and Designer: Theo Clinkard
Realisation and Performance: MA Dance: Performance Class of 2025
Dramaturgy: Leah Marojević
Sound Design: Jame St. Findlay
Lighting Design: Lucy Hansom
Costume Supervision: Alice Ortona Coles