Ways of Exposure is part of a double bill with Elev(i)ate2.

The desire to feel; the need to feel; the feeling of feeling; the feeling of having felt.
Using a physical theatre aesthetic, the three performers offer their personalities in spoken text and dance. It is a personal sharing in the public space of the theatre stage. A mannequin watches the action – what, if anything, are her thoughts and feelings? She says “I watch dance in order to feel”, but to what extent can the performers move her?

It is at different times vulnerable, intimate, funny, uncomfortable and beautiful. Nicola Elliott’s trademark style of physical theatre casts the performers as lovable-yet-flawed characters and creates poignant moments in the stories created on stage.

Design by Gavin Krastin. Performers: Thalia Laric, Siya Mbambaza and Ikalitheng Tigelo.

About First Physical Theatre Company:
The First Physical Theatre Company was established in 1993 as an associated non- profit performing arts company of Rhodes University. The Artistic Director, Gary Gordon, is regarded as a pioneer in South African theatre, has worked internationally in the fields of performance, choreography, and education, and has received numerous prestigious accolades and awards. The company has produced over ninety original theatre works including six major full- length danceplays.

About the choreographer:
Nicola Elliott is a conceptual artist. Primarily based in choreography, but also including other performing arts, Elliott’s dance theatre work engages form as content. She views choreography not as a sequence of steps or moves but rather as an attempt at finding new knowledges in and about the body. Always beginning with the body, her work ranges from formalist dance pieces to often-humorous physical theatre. She has taught at the Rhodes Drama Department, choreographed and performed for the First Physical Theatre Company and has presented works of her own or collaborations in theatre and dance annually at the National Arts Festival Grahamstown since 2006, the Dance Umbrella since 2008, the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees since 2009, and at Aardklop 2010 (awarded “Best Production”) and Spier Contemporary 2010.

In 2006, during her Honours degree at Rhodes University, she received the Jonathan Marks Prize for Choreography, and she was awarded the prestigious Andrew Mellon Scholarship for both years of her Masters Degree.

Over the years, she has collaborated with Acty Tang (Blue Flower, Textures), Alan Parker (Textures), composer Keith Moss (Quartet in fast and sparse), Brink Scholtz (How a dead dog…, Spyt), Sonja Smit (Quartet in fast and sparse, How a dead dog… ), Tshegofatso Tlholoe (Textures) and has performed in works by Tang (The Silent Wail of Melissande), Parker (Major/Minor), and Smit (Volstruismeidjie).

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