About DONUTS

4 Stars

So much to enjoy and admire about Burkmar’s piece

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Three friends are getting ready for a night out. The music is intoxicating, they start to dance. It’s so good, they might stay a little longer…

Inspired by classic sitcoms from the 90s and 00s, follow three close friends as their friendship evolves over time. 'Feelgood & fun' (The Guardian), DONUTS celebrates how music brings friends together, no matter what life throws at them.

Bursting with precision and soul, it is a hypnotic and playful contemporary dance to jazz and funk.

Drawing on his own relationship with music and its influence on his friendships growing up, choreographer Jamaal Burkmar places music at the heart of his creative process. DONUTS is the first, highly anticipated, full length dance piece from the company behind JUKEBOX, the breakthrough Instagram series combining popular music with their distinctive and dynamic style of dance.

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A resident of Leeds, Jamaal Burkmar’s first creation was as a second year student at the Northern School for Contemporary Dance (NSCD) where he created a piece entitled Ocean. The work gained critical acclaim, was performed around the North until it became the first and only undergraduate commissioned to rework the piece for VERVE the postgraduate company at NSCD.

His work is about music, it’s about the world that music creates and the world that our performers inhabit because of that. In 2021 Jamaal became one of 10 new Workplace artists at The Place and has since created and toured Donuts, co-produced by The Place. Jamaal is a Work Place Artist at The Place.

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Cast and Creatives

Choreographer: Jamaal Burkmar

Dancers: Isis Clunie, Shannon Dray, Ruby Portus

Lighting: Barnaby Booth

Costumes & Set Design: Rebecca Bevan

Production Manager: Chris Burr

Technical Stage Manager: Vian Curtis

Photography & Videography: Genevieve Reeves

Music: Jameszoo

Co-produced by The Place. Co-commissioned by The Place, DanceXchange, WarwickArtsCentre. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts CouncilEngland.