Fountain
England / 2022 / 28m / English
In-Person: Sun 25 June / 19:00 BST
Online: 23 - 29 June
A trio of dancers explore tidal cycles of repair, loss, joy and intimacy, expressed through movement and digital imagery.
In Yewande 103’s latest offering, Fountain (2022) speaks to the tides that shape our world and exist within our bodies. Guided by choreographer Alexandrina Hemsley’s tightly woven movement score and filmed in a darkened theatre space, the film explores the ways in which Blackness is contained in water. It is a spectrum of great magnitude, from the playfulness of splashing through a fountain in the summertime, to the oceanic passages forced upon those who were stolen from their homes. We are motivated to consider the inescapable tides of life and death and our watery bodies’ simultaneous existence as oceans, tombs and sanctuaries.
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A Yewande 103 Production
Concept, Creative Direction and Choreography: Alexandrina Hemsley
Executive Producer: Nancy May Roberts
Rehearsal Director: Nathália Mello
Director of Photography: Ngozi Ugochukwu
Editor: Katarzyna Perlak
Visual Effects, Editing and Colour Grading: Jack Barraclough
Costume Design: Abiola Onabule
Audio Description: Louise Dickson
Lighting Director: Caterina Castro Frigerio
Camera 1: Jack Barraclough
Camera 2: Rhiana Bonterre
Original Soundtrack: Dave Archer and João Caetano
Mixing and Mastering: João Caetano
Vocal improvisations: Jalen N’Gonda
Sound Effects: zapsplat.com
Recorded at Macau Records Studios, London
Fountain has been developed as part of LIVE NOW - a new digital commissioning programme from The Lowry
Additional commissioning support from Cambridge Junction and The Place (R&D)
Supported by Wainsate Dances Residency, 2021
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Rickay Hewitt-Martin
Rudzani Moleya
Shahada Nantaba
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Captions by Sarya Wu
British Sign Language by Rachel Jones
BSL Editing by Tao-Anas Le Thanh
Audio Descriptions provided by the International Digital Centre
Listen to…
Dance artists Rickay Hewitt-Martin and Rudzani Moleya talk about Fountain in our Audio Programme, Before the Applause - available wherever you get your podcasts.
Read Response
Finding Poetry Below the Surface
A response to Fountain by Theophina Gabriel