There and Here
Luca Silvestrini's Protein
About There and Here
Winner of The Stage Awards Community Project of the Year, 2023
A performance dedicated to people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced because of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations, or disasters of climate change.
There and Here brings together an ensemble of people from across the world for a three-week project at The Place. Participants and Protein’s artists come together to sing, dance, express their creativity and share their individual stories and collective resilience.
This project is part of Protein Dance’s inclusion programme, Real Life Real Dance. This work seeks to engage and empower using Protein's performance-led collaborative approach inspired by the participants’ lives and experiences.
Moved, tearful and joyful. I will take away a feeling of empathy and shared humanity.
Audience member, 2024
My heart has been expanded, it was blown open in the very first scene, just experiencing the heart that each performer was brining to the stage.
Audience member, 2024
About Protein
One of the most distinctive voices in British dance theatre, Artistic Director Luca Silvestrini has been using a blend of original choreography, text, music and social commentary to engage and entertain audiences and participants for over 25 years. Protein’s work is moved by the desire to connect deeply with audiences, using storytelling, immersive locations, and audience interaction to remove traditional boundaries and nurture an inclusive, participatory experience.
Protein’s critically acclaimed wide range of productions and community projects are much admired and in demand across the UK and the world. Amongst them LOL (lots of love), Border Tales, May Contain Food, May Contain Food May Contain You (especially created for rural touring), The Little Prince and the most recent The Magic Flute. Luca has also created popular outdoor shows, including On Display, (In)visible Dancing, Windows in Progress and the promenade experience En Route.
The company is a leader in producing transformative performance projects that bring together participants and artists of all ages and walks of life. Through its inclusion programme, Protein works with specific communities including children and young people in alternative provision schools, elders in care homes, and refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Participatory films and performance projects include, But I Am, This is Us, May Contain You and There and Here, which won The Stage Awards Community Project of the Year in 2023.
Recipient of the Art and Entertainment Civic Award 2022 from The Royal Borough of Greenwich, Protein is a Resident Artistic Company at Woolwich Works and Artistic Director Luca Silvestrini is an Affiliate Artist at The Place.
Credits
There and Here is funded by Stanley Thomas Johnson and The Place. This project is supported by The Place, Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants, Young Roots, Camden Borough of Sanctuary, Families4Peace, Migrant Help UK.
