Creative Team
Concept, Creation & Performance: John-William Watson
Set & Costume Design: Joshua Cartmell
Sound Design: John-William Watson
Creative Support: Bakani Pick-Up, Beth Emmerson, goodnighttheskye and Joshua Cartmell
Partners: Phoenix Dance Theatre, The Middle Floor, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Yorkshire Dance and Light Space Leeds
In Rules for Safe Lifting, Watson and Co create an imagined reality of a lonely figure trapped within the confines of an old, overlooked health and safety poster. With their existence brought to life in a dark basement room, concrete clad and damp, the protagonist searches for companionship.
Scored by a broken radio, their only connection with the outside world, the lonely figure navigates their relationship with isolation, monotony and what to do when faced with the greatest inevitability of all.
Click me!
“Stand with your feet in a ‘10 to 2’ position, one foot slightly in front of the other… let’s run through it one more time to make sure.”
⁃ The Box
Originally conceived as part of a residency offered by Phoenix Dance Theatre, Rules for Safe Lifting is NOT TO BE REPRODUCED’s latest solo project in development.
The new work was previewed in it’s development stage as part of A Treachery of Images, a new solo double bill performed by John-William Watson.
