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Image: Gary Winters
Caramel
an edible choreography
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CARAMEL
You can watch dance, even hear it,
but have you ever tried to smell it, to taste it?
Caramel is an edible choreography: a cross between a dance and a cooking
session, stimulating all five senses.
Choreography tends to be directed at audiences’ aural and visual senses. In a
bold move proposing to expand the notion choreography, we present a series of
propositions:
 What would choreography ‘look’ like if it was led by smell and taste rather
than sight and sound?
 What would a dramaturgy of taste consist of?
 Will audiences be willing to go against culturally accepted protocols of
behaviour and experience a choreographic work through taste?
It is also a choreography which is about process. An intimate performance
experience where audiences:
 Watch as a dance is created.
 Experience the creation of a soundscape.
 Glimpse theatre lights transforming into sculptures.
 Engage with the process of cooking caramel.
 Supply some of the ingredients.
 Eat their imagination.
Promotional film: https://vimeo.com/59847468
Caramel is created by Rita Marcalo and in collaboration with artist Gary Winters
(Lone Twin), dramaturge Ivana Ivkovic (BADco.), visual artist Lucy Barker, and
performers Christiane Stroubakis, Thom Shaw and Claire Greenwood.
Caramel is commissioned by the Theatre in the Mill, produced by Dance4, and
funded by the Arts Council of England.
VENUE, PRESS AND AUDIENCE COMMENTS
"A brilliant, stunning, unique, tasty and very sweet performance. I loved it.
Totally unexpected!"
Audience member
"Something I could not conceive imagining!"
Audience member
"Caramel is a pleasure: it's inspiring to see unique, innovative work, despite
these tough times!"
Audience member
“Interesting to see the process of creating something, which we never usually
see until the finished product.”
Iain Bloomfield, Theatre in the Mill
“Conceptually brilliant!”
The Culture Vulture
VENUE INFORMATION
Touring Availability
 Summer 2013 and Spring 2014
Running Time
 1 hour
 No interval
 Post-performance discussion available at no extra charge
Technical Requirements
 Get in time: the day before, all day from 9am.
 Venue technical assistance required (1 person).
 Ideally stage size should be a minimum of 8M x 11M. However, smaller
areas can be accommodated with advance notice.
 PA system, a microphone (with lead) and a microphone stand.
 LX rig / lighting board.
 Black box space and black floor.
 Maximum audience: 80 people.
Marketing
 Instant Dissidence can provide leaflets, posters and photographs (colour, on
jpeg format). Overprinting required by venue.
Fee
 £1200.00 (plus travel and accommodation)
Contacts for further information and bookings
Rita Marcalo (Artistic Director)
Tel: +44 (0)7799 852001
Email: info@instantdissidence.co.uk
or
Claire Hicks (Dance4 Producer)
Tel: +44 (0)115 9410773
Email: info@instantdissidence.co.uk
SELECTED IMAGES OF CARAMEL
Image: Christopher Mollon
Image: Claire Greenwood
Image: Christopher Mollon
Image: Christopher Mollon
COMPANY INFORMATION
Founded in 2002, Instant Dissidence is a Bradford-based performance company which
creates conceptually-driven cutting-edge choreographic work. The company works from a
place of dissent and is known for its risk-taking approach to performance and for its
aesthetic of hyper-romanticism which surprises and wonders. Instant Dissidence’s work
often questions what it means to be a performer and an audience member, challenging
audiences and inviting them to surrender boundaries.
As a company Instant Dissidence focuses on body-based work: the body, and its physical
and cultural architectures, are central to our practice. However, we do not necessarily think
of ourselves as artists focusing on dance, but as artists creating conceptual choreography
which may, or may not, adopt the form of dance (as well as dances, we create films,
sculptures, immersive digital works, live art pieces and events).
By ‘conceptual choreography’ we refer to work which emphasises concepts (and the ways
in which they can be physicalised through performance), rather than dances per se. In the
same way in which in science (and engineering) form follows concept, we are interested in
creating art which adopts the form which it needs to adopt in order to better communicate
its concept, rather than in locking ourselves into a pre-determined form.
We believe that the production of artistic work goes side by side, and is enriched by, the
sharing of process through teaching, and the analysis of how the work’s meaning is
culturally constructed. For this reason, alongside our productions, we also run a programme
of classes, workshops, and artist talks, and a publishing programme.
For more information on our work please visit www.instantdissidence.co.uk.