Saturday 16 November. Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot is a dance artist born in Paris. Originally a geologist and a movement educator, she trained in contemporary dance and contact improvisation in France and Italy until she arrived in London in 2007 to study at Laban. Since then, she has worked as a performer, a choreographer and a teacher/facilitator in many different contexts, among others with h2dance, Noa Zamir, Candoco, Dance United etc, and internationally. In her work, she questions the notion of choreography and the role of the performer, using instant composition and improvisation along with tight scores.
Together with Geneviève Giron and Fay Patterson, she started The Latecomers in 2010, considering all of them as multi-disciplinary collaborators with competences that go beyond their original training, and considering the technical and the artistic side of theatre work as equally creative. The Latecomers propose works that are audacious, thoughtful, often witty, and challenge the audience’s expectation. Loving dance and theatre and wanting them accessible, but not bound to traditional definitions.
Vertigos
Vertigos is a tour into the heart's shapes, functions and ways of working. A physical documentary leading us into spiralling journeys between the personal, the scientific and the poetic. Combining visceral dance and text with a striking scenography and lighting design, it looks with humour and depth at what sustains every second of our lives.
Choreographer: Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot
Dancer: Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot
Music: Meret Becker ("Gebrochenes Herz"), Wilmoth Houdini ("I need a man"), Hamlet Gonashvili ("Orovela")