About [h]INTERLAND2

Shobana Jeyasingh continues to challenge perceptions of location and to explore performance beyond the confines of the stage with [h]INTERLAND2, which sees her latest work specifically resited for The Place.

As her dancers edge their way between light and shadow they test the boundaries between reality and illusion and challenge restrictions of space - whether in another part of the building or another part of the world. While the acid coloured films of Pete Gomes capture the hyper real cityscapes of 21st century Bangalore - IT Capital of India - [h]INTERLAND2 unravels the tight-knit fabric of ideas, images and places that constitute a person's history.

Last Autumn, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company presented [h]INTERLAND, a site specific multimedia performance created for the Borough Hall, Greenwich, where it became the sold-out must-see event of Dance Umbrella 2002.

About Shobana Jeyasingh

Shobana Jeyasingh is one of the country's most outstanding and well known dance makers. For over ten years she has created dance for theatre and for film, dazzling and beautiful reflections of life in Britain today. Her work is sharp and thought-provoking and her highly skilled dancers move like quicksilver, giving a potent sense of the excitement of urban life. Born in Madras, Jeyasingh came to England via Sri Lanka and Malaysia and her own complicated cultural hinterland is expressed in a hybrid dance language of her own. She has won numerous awards and received an MBE in 1995.

Jeyasingh's personal sense of adventure finds the perfect partners in the artists with whom she collaborates. The films she has commissioned from Pete Gomes and Terry Braun employ the latest digital techniques alongside almost obsolete analogue technology with startling vivid results.

Renowned for her collaborations with leading contemporary composers, Jeyasingh commissioned the score for [h]INTERLAND from Donnacha Dennehy, featuring the extraordinary vocal talents of Stephanie Büttrich and Kristina Fuchs who will be singing live. Natacha Atlas's haunting vocals accompany the score of PHANTASMATON commissioned from Jocelyn Pook.

The dancers are: Kats Fukasawa, Sowmya Gopalan, Radhimala Govindarajoo, Mavin Khoo, Jiva Parthipan and Shane Shambhu.

[h]INTERLAND & PHANTASMATON - 2003 Tour Dates

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