Eira Dance Theatre and Magdalena Mannion

Resolution Festival 2025

About Eira Dance Theatre and Magdalena Mannion

A watercolour painting of two hands being touched by sunlight with a backdrop of a canopy. The leaves are golden and sunshine is pouring through them.
Credit: Full Artwork by Phoebe Lester

Golden Leaves

The soft steam of peach blossom tea swirls in the air.

Golden Leaves is a meditative dance duet combining nature-inspired floorwork with elements of butoh to contemplate on Summer’s vitality within Winter’s solitude. Immersed in a soundscape of rustling canopies, this piece offers space to encounter the glowing underside of a leaf, inviting you to lean in and wonder or lean back and ponder.

This is a performance for those seeking stillness in the busyness and warmth within Winter.

About Eira Dance Theatre

Eira Dance Theatre (formerly The Motion Pack) is a UK-based ambient dance company, creating meditative encounters that inspire stillness in the busyness. Through interdisciplinary arts, our work unfolds like the slow drip of coffee, offering time to dive into the imagination and inspire harmony in a society rife with social and ecological dissonance.

Cast & Credit

Choreographer: Billy Maxwell Taylor
Dancers: Maggie Tin Lok Chan & Billy Maxwell Taylor
Composer: Stefan Janik
Soundscape Artist: Billy Maxwell Taylor
Costume Designer: Dr. Lara Kipp
Company Artist: Phoebe Lester

Black and White photo of a dancer facing away from the camera with a bare back and a black skirt rolled at the waist. Her right hand is suspended in the air & is about to drop a flower.
Credit: Danilo Moroni

Jane

Jane is a solo contemporary flamenco dance work which explores the wild inner life of an introvert, of quiet rebellion against the norm, and questions the boundaries that social expectation and routine place on our existence. Originally inspired by the figure of the madwoman in the attic in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - this piece explores our relationship with altitude and isolation.

Jane is a collaboration with composer and cellist Colin Alexander.

About Magdalena Mannion

Magdalena is a flamenco dance artist who is interested in how flamenco can occupy contemporary spaces and communicate with other art forms. She trained extensively in flamenco in Spain (Amor de Dios, Conservatorio Superior de Danza Maria de Avila, ESMUC) as well as at contemporary schools NSCD and Merce Cunningham NYC.

She is co-director of Luz & Mannion Dance (formerly Dotdotdot Dance), and has toured in companies such as Rafaela Carrasco Company, Adriana Bilbao Company & Riverdance. Between 2013-2020 she was a regular soloist and resident artist in Madrid’s traditional flamenco venues where she formed the foundations for experimenting with the traditional form.

Cast & Credit

Choreographer & Performer: Magdalena Mannion
Original composition & Cello: Colin Alexander

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GALLERY

  • A watercolour painting of two hands being touched by sunlight with a backdrop of a canopy. The leaves are golden and sunshine is pouring through them
  • A man stands on one leg with his arms curling upwards. He is wearing a beige jumper and loose charcoal-shaded trousers. He stands in a field with a backdrop of trees and a blue sky with scattered clouds.
  • Black and White photo of a dancer facing away from the camera with a bare back and a black skirt rolled at the waist. Her right hand is suspended in the air & is about to drop a flower.