Collaborating artists
Choreography & Performers: Freddie Opoku-Addaie & Frauke Requardt
Costume & Set design: Justin Arienti
Composition & Sound Design: Ben & Max Ringham
Lighting Design: Angela Anson
Mentor: Graeme Miller
Live Operated Score Sequence: Salvado Alejandro Garza Fishburn
Live Operated Lighting Sequence: Angela Anson
Vocal Coaching: Jamie McCarthy
Commissioned by: The Place Prize (sponsored by Bloomberg)
Supported and developed during ChoreoRoam 2009
Performances
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, London – 29-30 May 2012
The Place COMMA 40, Bloomberg Space, London – 24 Nov 2011
Bold Tendencies 5, Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park, London – 24 Sept 2011
B. Motion (Operaestate Festival Veneto), Bassano del Grappa, Italy – 25 Aug 2011
The Place Prize Finals, London – 6-16 Apr 2010
Premiere: The Place Prize Semi-Finals, London – 9-18 Sept 2010
By Freddie Opoku-Addaie & Frauke Requardt
A dance relationship with the two performers making split-second choreographic decisions based on guesswork, trust and their memories of physical negotiations.
“Frauke and I intentionally had little preparation on the work prior to our meeting at the ChoreoRoam residencies, a principle we kept in its realisation for The Place Prize. This meant that the material was created in instant bursts of short physical duet dialogues. The main resolution in deciding whether to stay with specific material was whether we liked it and the parameter of being as accurate as possible to its redoing from memory.” Freddie
Reviews
“This energetic to and fro is at once intimate and innocent, simple and clever, and reaches its playful climax just as the corn starts to pop, erupting like fireworks.” Independent on Sunday
“Opoku-Addaie and Requardt’s Fidelity Project is a sort of capoeira-gone-haywire duet about duetting in all its forms – with a popcorn-maker thrown in.” The Daily Telegraph
“Hit of the night with me and the audience as good dancers collided with interesting idea and design.” Ballet.co magazine
“The two choreographers locked in a retributive, kinetic duel, causing each other the kind of suffering that only deep familiarity can engender.” The Guardian
“They possess an unassuming naiveté that is incredibly engaging and convincing, allowing us to enter their whimsical world.” Londondance.com
Gallery
Downloads
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