Nottdance: Tender Stones by Lucy Suggate with Cool Company
Lucy Suggate returns to nottdance bringing her latest work Tender Stones.
Performers from all disciplines work to construct paper stones, a surreal production line emerges…
Exploring the transferable properties of stone, we examine how we might begin to move with petrification, heaviness and tenderness, through the performers paper stone making, our attention is drawn towards expansive states of awareness. It is a strange practice of reverse extraction, possibly, and a small acknowledgement of the utterly unfathomable.
During 2022, choreographer Lucy Suggate and visual artist Charlie Ford began collaborating during a residency at Wainsgate Dances. The residency brought together Charlie’s drawing practice into orbit with Lucy’s dance research. Over time these parallel encounters evolved into Tender Stones.
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nottdance is a festival of extraordinary dance, presenting choreographic ideas and works from across the city of Nottingham and around the world, asking ‘what can dance be?’ The festival has always embraced experimentation, inviting radical perspectives, listening to artists working in ways that don’t fit the traditional, choreographic mould. Now, for the 2025 edition, which takes place from Wednesday 8 October to Saturday 1 November, nottdance asks: How do we each perceive time? What does it feel like to belong? And whose stories are being told? Inhabiting the city’s theatres, galleries, shopping centres and outdoor spaces, the works reflect and celebrate our city and the world in which we live, with and for our communities near and far. Established in the 80s, nottdance has been at the forefront of creating and presenting new artistic perspectives.
Lucy Suggate is a dance artist and choreographer based in the UK. Making working since 2003 she is recognised for her articulate and engaging solo performances as well as choreographic installations and public scores inspired by aspects of synchronicity and cooperation. Her movement practice is an ongoing inquiry into the perceptual and physical expansion that occurs when engaged in longterm moving and thinking. A lot of her current focus is around occupying spaces to practice in, investigating sustainability and revisioning future dance spaces as dynamic and flexible operations.
Cool Company is a dance improvisation ensemble for people aged 55+ Radical in method and approach the company enjoys a close relationship with visual artists. Working out of Nottingham Contemporary and IC4C, workshops are facilitated by professional choreographer and movement specialist Deane McQueen.