The Last Quartet
Seke Chimutengwende
About The Last Quartet
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“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time”
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
In The Last Quartet, Seke Chimutengwende imagines a “last work” or a “last attempt” at choreography. It’s an opportunity to go back to the beginning - back to the core elements of dancing and music, to imagine them anew.
Four dancers enter and exit the stage through gaps in the audience. They are figuring everything out through movement - how to begin, how to connect, how to change, how to end - leaving fleeting traces of scenes, relationships, and characters for the audience to contemplate. They share the stage with composer Jamie McCarthy, whose elegiac, electro-acoustic score evokes the slow and sudden changes of weather systems and cloud formations.
With no fixed sequences of movement and no fixed order of events, The Last Quartet offers a glimpse of limitless possibilities and new beginnings in this current moment where hope is scarce and futures lie everywhere in ruins.
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About Seke Chimutengwende
Seke Chimutengwende is a choreographer, performer, movement director and teacher.
Seke uses choreography to experiment with alternative approaches to authorship and governance; crafting processes and forms that dislodge hierarchies and release new modes of collectivity. His recent work It begins in darkness (2022), looks at ghosts and haunted houses as metaphors for how histories of slavery and colonialism haunt the present. Seke has also recently choreographed a work for Candoco Dance Company, In Worlds Unknown (2022). Seke’s new work, The Last Quartet, which imagines a “last work” or “last attempt” at choreography, inspired by TS Eliot’s Four Quartets, will premiere in 2026. Seke is concurrently researching a new choreography for six dancers set to Miles Davis’ 1972 album On The Corner. It will premiere in Autumn 2027.
Cast & Creatives
Choreographer: Seke Chimutengwende
Dancers: Temitope Ajose, Charlie Ashwell, Seke Chimutengwende and Matthias Sperling
Rehearsal Director: Stephanie McMann
Composer: Jamie McCarthy
Dramaturg: Efrosini Protopapa
Costume designer: Annie Pender
Lighting designer: Marty Langthorne
Set designer: Bethany Wells
Production manager: Michael Picknett
Producers: Metal & Water
Credits
Research for this work was recently supported by The Place through Choreodrome