Eira Dance Theatre, Magdalena Mannion and Vidya Patel & Shankho Chaudhuri
Resolution Festival 2025
About Eira Dance Theatre, Magdalena Mannion and Vidya Patel & Shankho Chaudhuri
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
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
CHRYSALIS
CHRYASLIS is an ode to the transformative power of the dance floor, an ensemble piece charting a voyage of discovery through rave. An exploration of the ways that repetitive beats open the door to meditation, connection, sensual / sexual experimentation, resistance and liberation. What new possibilities await us in the sonic embrace of bass and sweat? What is there to catch us when we let go? Driven partly by personal experience, and partly in witnessing the rising tide of the South Asian artists, CHRYSALIS is an attempt to locate the present self within a broader genealogy of dance music, to join those who see rave as practice.
About Vidya Patel & Shankho Chaudhuri
Vidya is a UK based dance artist, choreographer, performer and educator. Her work merges influences of Kathak with contemporary dance, working collaboratively with music, poetry and visual arts and has three National Dance Critic Circle Award nominations, was a Sadlers Wells Young Associate 2020-22, and in 2023 received the The Michele Fox Choreographic Award and the Vic Wells Award.
Shankho is designer working across theatre, dance, music and XR. He was Resident Design Assistant at the National Theatre 2019-20, Staff Associate Designer at New Diorama Theatre 2021-22, and co-designed the Olivier-award winning TRAPLORD with Chloe Lamford. He was Creative Director of the 2024 ARRIVALS stage at Glastonbury, the festival’s first stage dedicated entirely to South Asian artists,
Cast & Credit
Co-creator: Vidya Patel
Co-creator: Shankho Chaudhuri
Composer & Sound Designer: Somatic
