A large digital clock hangs overhead. This is a countdown duet for two 17 year-old boys tasked to report back on life in just 4 minutes.
Selected for Greenwich & Docklands International Festival 2023, the duet punches a great big hole through what youth dance looks and feels like. It requires moment-to-moment engagement with those watching and the courage to be seen. All against a backdrop of time running out.
They say the performer experience is
“tricky, physically risky, brilliant but we were shaking”
We say
“defies categorisation - like a radio that refuses to stay tuned to one station”
A Stacked Wonky Academy production
Devised & performed by
Stuart Pelling and Ernie Shorten
Artistic Direction Sarah Shorten
Sound Sebastian Tesouro
Design Angela Newbold
Touring Technician Tony Macriner
Video Dan Farberoff
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“Among the most intense, magnetic and uncompromising 4 minutes of performance I've ever seen. Demands to be witnessed”
Audience
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“Young, gritty and ferocious”
Audience
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“They roll, leap, bounce, swagger, rest, lift, point, contort, slide, hide, confront, clamber, flip, despair, stare you out. And a part of you that’s lost somewhere wakes up”
Audience
Tour Dates 2024
Out There Festival,
Great Yarmouth
2 pm, 4.45 pm & 7.30 pm
31 May
Out There Festival,
Great Yarmouth
2 pm, 4.45 pm & 7.30 pm
1 June
6 July
King’s Square Dance, Gloucester
1.50 pm, 2.45 pm & 3.45 pm
Suitable for all ages
Running time
15 minutes, allowing for arrival and departure
“Outstanding performance @ GDIF by far was Stacked Wonky. Fire. Banger. 10/10. Blew me away. 2 teenagers full of danger, daring, talent & energy”
EJ Benning
Co-Artistic Director, Strike A Light
Photos courtesy of Marcus Way and Andy Beeson, @ redManhattan and Aisling Magill