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

New Season Programme!

8 February - 1 March 2014

The Print Room presents 

IGNIS

A new dance production inspired by fire.

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15 March - 12 April 2014

The Print Room presents the UK Premiere of

THE DEAD DOGS

by Jon Fosse

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19 May - 7 June 2014

The Print Room in association with Opera Erratica presents

TRIPTYCH

An experimental opera première, designed by Gavin Turk

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Who is Amy Gdala?

...Was my first question when our upcoming show was first announced, a stupid question to many, but as booking have been coming in, confusion on how to pronounce the word and what it actually means appear common place.

So first things first; “Am-ig-da-la” is the correct pronunciation of the word.

And according to Wikipedia (the source of all internet knowledge):   “The amygdalae are almond-shaped groups of nuclei located deep and medially within the temporal lobes of the brain in complex vertebrates, including humans.  Shown in research to perform a primary role in the processing of memory and emotional reactions, the amygdalae are considered part of the limbic system.”

Insightful!

In terms of what it means as regards to Geraldine Alexanda’s play, well it can be explained quite simply by reading the blurb on the back of our promotional flyers.

“Catherine is in a post-traumatic state and Simon, an eminent psychiatrist, is employed to help her recover her memory in time to give evidence in the trail of Joshua James.

As the date for the trial approaches, Simon becomes absorbed with the working of his patient’s brain, as he grapples with his preconceptions of truth, memory and perspective.”

Further understanding to these nut shaped nuclei and their connection to our upcoming play are explained thus:

Recent studies suggest that, while the amygdala is not itself a long-term memory storage site, and learning can occur without it, one of its roles is to regulate memory consolidation in other brain regions.

During the consolidation period, the memory can be modulated. In particular, it appears that emotional arousal following the learning event influences the strength of the subsequent memory for that event. Greater emotional arousal following a learning event enhances a person's retention of that event.