David Ainsworth, Banquet Theatre and Excessive Human Collective - Imogen Reeve
Resolution Festival 2025
About David Ainsworth, Banquet Theatre and Excessive Human Collective - Imogen Reeve
Signature Moves
David Ainsworth used to be an accountant. Then he was diagnosed with Parkinson's. Now he's a choreographer, exploring how to communicate to others about his illness and trailblazing a path for a new generation of artists with neurological conditions.
What happens when you lose your signature; when it is replaced by 'the footprints of a drunken, limping spider'? Signature Moves examines the feelings of an individual who is dealing with illness, specifically Parkinson's. It explores a personal journey from denial through rationalisation to acceptance, on the way exploring interactions between partners and loved ones, agencies and the community as a whole.
Join us for this thought-provoking new work, featuring a cast of mature older dancers, for David Ainsworth's exciting London debut.
About David Ainsworth - Fuse Dance Collective
Fuse Dance Collective is an ambitious disabled-led dance company of people with Parkinson's and other neurological conditions. The company is facilitated by Ascendance – a dance for health organisation who have been working for over 25 years to ensure access to high-quality dance experiences - and repertoire is co-created by company members, themed towards adult audiences and primarily focuses on individual's experience of illness, particularly Parkinson's.
Cast & Credits
Choreography: David Ainsworth
Artistic Director: Rachel Wesson
Creative Director & Mentor: Emma Clayton
Cast: David Ainsworth, Sophie Atkinson, Emma Clayton, Barbara Dransfield, Sharon Fountain, Emma Hindley, Angela King, Frank Lee, Bren Neale, Elizabeth Nolan, Shafik Rahman, Gerry Sutton, Helen Strickland, Susan Watson, Terence Wood
Feeding Time
What does it mean to consume and be consumed?
Inspired by Monty Python’s Mr. Creosote sketch and the relentlessness of human consumption, Feeding Time exposes the uncanny likeness between man and beast. Combining physical theatre with dynamic contemporary choreography, Banquet Theatre promises to make you squirm, shudder and salivate.
Uncompromising and unrelenting, Feeding Time challenges audiences to reflect on their own habits of consumption and what it means to disrupt natural order in pursuit of ultimate satiation…
About Banquet Theatre
Banquet Theatre is the brainchild of dancer and theatre-maker Mark Crawley. Formed following his graduation from Rambert School, Banquet Theatre is the theatrical vessel through which Mark creates dynamic, characterful choreography designed to leave audiences feeling full.
Disillusioned by neglectful choreographers, Mark founded Banquet Theatre with the vision of introducing non-dance audiences to contemporary dance with accessible, high-octane performances.
Following a successful stream of new creations at Rambert School’s Choreographic Platform (and earning a cult following of like-minded misfits), Banquet Theatre is delighted to debut at The Place with Feeding Time.
Cast & Credits
Director: Mark Crawley
Company Manager: Sally Edible
Composers: Andrés Peña & Parsa Valiany
Lighting Designer: Liam Walton-Bell
Costume Designer: Sophie Andrews
Dancers: Spike King, Thomas Sutton, Elisabeth Mulenga, Zachary Priestley, Elaini Lalousis, Anna Smith, Finn Gurney, Polly Mann
We Are The World
“The cyborg would not recognise the garden of Eden, it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust." - Donna Haraway
Three performers wander an infinite landscape, their bodies merging with machine, as they grapple with images of hyper-femininity.
With the cyborg as a metaphor for fragmented identities, We Are The World looks at the space between fiction and fact, and what it means to be a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fantasy. From Artistic Director Imogen Reeve, We Are The World shares a utopian vision, investigating the partiality, irony, intimacy and perversity of human nature.
We Are The World is the third instalment of a trilogy of work by Excessive Human Collective examining gender, technology and the apocalyptic.
About Excessive Human Collective
Excessive Human Collective is a dance theatre collective under the Artistic Direction of Imogen Reeve. Imogen uses her work to examine gender, technology and the apocalyptic. Her current research interests are AI as choreographic collaborator, post and trans humanism, Haraway’s metaphor of the Cyborg and the merging of body and machine.
Alongside her work with Excessive Human Collective, Imogen is also the Artistic Director of The Middle Floor, Co-director of the Glitterbomb Dancers, and a guest lecturer and MA supervisor at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
Cast & Credits
ARTISTIC TEAM:
IDEA AND DIRECTION: Imogen Reeve
CHOREOGRAPHY: Imogen Reeve in collaboration with performers
PERFORMER COLLABORATORS: Allegra Vistalli, Jorden Brooks, Hannah Durkan
SCENERY: Imogen Reeve
SOUND: Devon Bonelli
COSTUME DESIGN, COSTUME REALIZATION: Imogen Reeve
LIGHTING DESIGN: Charlotte Woods
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Charlotte Woods
PRODUCER: Callum Holt
