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Plue UK Tour 2025
FABRIC (Birmingham) | Thurs 23rd Jan | Click here for tickets
PDSW (Bournemouth) | Fri 7th Feb | Click here for tickets
Cambridge Junction (Cambridge) | Thurs 6th March | Click here for tickets
The Place (London) | Fri 4th & Sat 5th April (audio described with touch tour) | Click here for tickets
Plue is a queer disappearing act examining queer visibility, intimacy, and privacy.
Plue looks with love at how queer people appear and disappear as they adjust & re-position in relation to others' gazes - the dance of what, as queer people, we choose to share, what we feel pressured to hide, what we can’t hide even if we tried, and what we show but is never really seen. All in relation to our joy, comfort and safety. Plue seeks to occupy and explore the gap between how queer people feel, and how they’re seen. It looks at connection and disconnection - at presence and absence - at navigations of intimacy, and the ways we bridge distance with care to connect with one another. At its core Plue speaks to processes of intimacy and how we bare ourselves to connect, reconfigure and reform to hold each other close.
Plue is Eli Lewis and Joe Garbett’s first collaboration, an unlikely one that connects and tessellates two different ways of thinking about and doing dance to find strange new common ground.
Photo Credit | Belisa Buzollo
Photo Credit | Belisa Buzollo
Credits
Concept and Choreography // Eli Lewis and Joe Garbett
Performers // Jay Yule and Joe Garbett
Dramaturgy // Orrow Bell
Choreographic Support // Jay Yule, Natifah White, J Neve Harrington, Kit Hall, Ania Varez, Riikka Lakea
Sound Design // Edvin Langfeld
Set Design // Hannah Sharp
Lighting Design // Jo Palmer
Costume Design // Berthe Fortin
Producer // Alison Thomas
Post Show Facilitator // Orrow Bell | Shivaangee Agrawal
Audience Connector // Lucia Fortune-Ely
Audio Description // Shivaangee Agrawal and Elaine Joseph through SoundScribe
Care Consultancy // Dais Hale | Orrow Bell
Drama Therapy // Wabriya King
Environmental Consultancy // Danielle Pipe
Illusion Consultancy // Neil Kelso
Marketing Support // Clara Cowen
Photographer and Videographer // Beliza Buzollo | Andy Mcredie & Maya Yoncali
Partners
Arts Council England, The Place, FABRIC, South East Dance, Pavilion Dance South West, Cambridge Junction, Carne to Cove, Villages in Action, Artsadmin, Off the Record, Diversity Trust and Taunton Pride
A massive thank you to all the queer family, friends, collaborators, peers, interviewees, writers, doers, movers and thinkers who have fed and shaped the thinking behind Plue over the past 5 years. All those conversations, late-night debates, euphoric dances, sweaty workshops, lent books, shared links and voice-notes challenged us to widen and complicate our perspective on queerness beyond our own trodden routes. Thank you for your generosity, care and for ripening us up to further learning.
TIMBER
A suspenseful balancing act about managing risk and finding space to flourish within precarious situations.
Six, wooden, door-sized frames, balanced upright in a row - waiting to fall like dominoes. Two people defiantly occupy this precarious space, performing a suspenseful balancing act. Skin on wood, they strain against the frames, straddling the frames like lovers. Joints creaking, they slowly queer the timber, becoming slow-moving, part-human-part-frame hybrids.
In a kaleidoscope of light, TIMBER is about reclaiming risky spaces, straining against limitation, and finding space to flourish within precarious situations. This slowly unfurling work explores the simmering power of silence, stillness, and gradual change, whilst playfully testing people’s attitudes toward risk and precariousness.
Production Credits
Creator and Choreographer // Elinor Lewis
Creative Contributor // Hannah Parsons
Performers // Elinor Lewis and Hannah Parsons
Set Designer // Hannah Sharp
Lighting Designer // Nao Nagai
Costume Designer // Berthe Fortin
Photographer and Videographer // Rocio Chacon
Consultants // Dr Sophie Jones, Viv Gordon and Hamish MacPherson
Many thanks to TIMBER's interview participants, whose stories and ideas helped fuel TIMBER's creative research. You can read these conversations by clicking here.
Support
The Place, DanceXchange, Arts Council England, Artsadmin's BANNER Award, Goldsmiths College, The Welcome Collection, Take Art, Pavilion Dance South West, Taunton Pride, Somerset Lesbian Network, Diversity Trust and Chard WATCH.
ORCHARD
Like a rarefied circus act, it is part minimalist dance, part installation. Mesmerising and nerve-wracking.
Neil Norman Resolution Review 2018
A forest of vertically balanced poles, vulnerable to the lightest touch. Two performers navigate this precarious environment with the ever-present risk that one mistake could prove catastrophic.
Production Credits
Creator and Choreographer // Elinor Lewis
Creative Collaborator // Nuria Legarda Andueza
Lighting Designer // Nao Nagai
Costume Designer // Berthe Fortin
Photography // Ludovic Descognets
Support
The Place, Arts Council England, Aerowaves Twenty19, Artsadmin, Goldsmiths College, PDSW through #SWDancing2019
Past Performances
The Place // London, UK
Artsadmin // London, UK
BORA BORA // Aarhus, Denmark
Mac Val // Spring Forward Festival, Val-de-Marne, France
Baluarte // 948 Merkatua Festival, Pamplona, Spain
WHERE YOU TO?
Where you to?
Commissioned by Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton, WHERE YOU TO? is a interactive, digital, choose your own adventure website that dances you through the unseen natural beauty of Somerset. Elinor collaborated with Joe Garbett to create WHERE YOU TO? which is made up of 62 dance GIFS and 32 dance films.
Have a go at making your own dance adventure by clicking here.
Production Credits
Creators // Elinor Lewis and Joe Garbett
Performer // Joe Garbett
Photographer and Videographer // Elinor Lewis
AURAL.EFFECT
A collaboration with sound artist and Bloomsburg New Contemporary, Jesc Bunyard, Aural.Effect invites the public into a darkened room to experience dance in a new way - through sound alone - unmasking the physical and emotional effort dancers exert when they perform. Click here to find out more about Jesc's work.
Past Public Performances
Jan 2017, The Bluecoat