Throwback Thursday: Sara Kestelman in 4000 miles

Following performances at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath, James Dacre's production of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles transferd to The Print Room May 14^th with a sell-out three week run.

Sara Kestelman played Vera, a feisty 91 year-old communist living alone in her West Village apartment in New York. Her solitude is disrupted when her 21 year-old grandson, Leo arrives on her doorstep in the middle of the night, he's a latter-day hippie, recently returned from a cross-country bike trip which ended traumatically.  Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately connect.

Kestelman now returns to The Print Room in IGNIS a theatre dance experience inspired by fire.  For more information and to book tickets click here!

**** "James Dacre's production is sensitive to the delivate nuances of Amy Herzog's play. Sara Kestelman's performance as Vera is gutsy and precise, and as Leo newcomer Daniel Boyd is charming, goofy and affecting"

Evening Standard

**** "Sara Kestelman plays Vera with brilliant quicksilver changeability"

The Independent

Cast: Daniel Boyd, Sara Kestelman, Jing Lusi and Jenny Hulse

Director - James Dacre

Designer  - Simon Kenny

Lighting Design - Richard Howell

Sound Design - Adrienne Quartly

Hubert Essakow Interview in Marylebone Journal

IGNIS Rehearsal Photographs

IGNIS by Hubert Essakow

8 February - 1 March

Company: Noora Kela, Sara Kestelman, Lukasz Przytarski and Jordi Calpe Serrats

Rehearsal Photograph's: First Look

Actor Sara Kestelman on working with Hubert Essakow:

"My first introduction to The Print Room was doing the play, '4000 Miles' by Amy Herzog which was directed by James Dacre.  I was upstairs in The Print Room's lovely art gallery one day looking at some wonderful photos of Hubert's piece FLOW.

Admiring the photos and thinking how brilliant it looked, I happened to mention my dance background to Anda Winters and my long held desire to be involved in a piece of dance theatre.  She introduced me to Hubert. We met for a coffee at Tate Britain and found that we have a lot of shared experience and are touched and influenced by the same artists and we became very excited to work together.

The subject was fire and after a number of conversations we planned a three-day workshop to bounce some ideas. I used some of my writing, a song, a poem, a few memories, some recurring dreams.  Dance is a passion and from my beginnings defined me so it was wonderful to be able to work with the dancers and together explore and invent movement with words.  Hubert's vision is inspiring!  The subject is exciting! 

It's thrilling to be creating something entirely new, entirely original and working with people so passionate about art. It's liberating too.  And for me the excitement of the project, the combination of the young with the older is touching, interesting, stimulating, sexy!"

#ThrowbackThursday FLOW

With our upcoming theatre dance experience IGNIS, exploring and inspired by the powerful and potent qualities of fire, we throwback to the last time Hubert Essakow draped our stage with his beautiful choreography.

Inspired by water, FLOW was an innovative collaboration of dance, design and music. Five dancers with a pioneering collective of artists created a new full length dance experience, staged in the round in an ever-changing waterscape. 

"The ultimate in immersive theatre" 

Independent on Sunday 

Designed by Tom Dixon and composed by Peter Gregson, FLOW explored unique properties and different states of water, to reveal the dynamic relationship of mankind to this essential element, the most valuable of commodities.

"Enjoyably strong on style- a serious, exhilarating collaboration"

The Guardian

 

"Essakow's choreography is stunning"

A Younger Theatre 

 

Performed: 4 - 23 February 2013

Choreographer - Hubert Essakow 

Designer - Tom Dixon

Composer - Peter Gregson

Dancers -  Sonya Cullingford, Daniel Hay-Gordon, Thomasin Gulgec, Simone Muller & Kieran Stoneley

Sound Design - Andy Marlow

Lighting Design - Matthew Eagland

Dramaturg - Dan Ayling

Text - Richard Thomas

Projections - Kitty McMahon