How do we live with stress? Plasma investigates how our individuality is constrained and shaped by society and how it can be liberated in a frantic modern world.
Using abstract movement and interaction between dancers Plasma explores how one can express individuality positively, without destroying important social structures. Plasma shows how people are often alienated from their true values, because of the pressure exerted on them to conform to social norms.
We focus on researching and interpreting the external pressures that drive individual and social actions and the means that are used to enhance performance, for example, in sports, business, and healthcare. Through dance and multimedia, we look at what positive and negative effects pressure can have in an ever changing and increasingly demanding society.
“encapsulates the atmosphere of stressful, work driven society” Oxford Dance Writers
Dancers (original)
Monica Mate Arnall
Caroline Shephard
Anja Meinhardt
Roosa Leimu-Brown
Lisa Pocock
Irini Hatzimichali
Dancers (in further performances)
Hara Kyriazo
Amabel Luers
Bronwyn Tarr
Gemma Peramiquel
Choreographers
Anja Meinhardt & Roosa Leimu-Brown
Music (6′ piece)
Kimmo Pohjonen & Kronos Quartet
Composer & Sound Designer (25′ piece)
Jon Ouin
Lighting Designer
Ophelie Lebrasseur
Photographer
Stu Allsopp
2016
22 January – Pegasus, Oxford (Scratch Night)
26 & 27 February – Pegasus, Oxford (Moving with the Times)
16 July – Old Fire Station Oxford (Women go Live)
1 September – Old Fire Station, Oxford
28 October – The Broadway, Barking
12 November – The Old Museum, Oxford
26 November – St Barts, Reading
2018
September – Twin City Festival, Perm, Russia
2019
October – Evolution Event, Old Fire Station, Oxford
