About : The Work

half/angel have been making work for theatres, galleries and outside spaces since 1995. This work always has a poetic sensibility, grounded in Jools' writing, and elaborated through a decade of collaboration in embodied practices.

We have often worked with emerging technologies, but this has always been as a tool to investigate content / modes of interaction with our audience / visitors.

We have sometimes been known as a dance company; our corporeal curiosity revels in the professional dancing body, but also lurches beyond it to other kinds of bodies and embodied contexts.

We are a company that makes unsettling installation spaces (The Lios 2004), haunting and raucous dance theatre (The Secret Project 1999), large-scale site specific performance with dozens of non-professional performers (The White Quadrangle 2005), as well as vast audacious projects which resist conventional forms (The Knitting Map 2005).

We are also a company with a research sensibility; we write about our work in journals and books, and we have both written PhD's on the company's work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

She told me that if I bathed the distaff with blood, strange alchemies would come upon me.
She told me that if I span and pricked my finger, I could exchange blood for knowledge.
She told me this gently, holding me close to her.

[Spinstren 2002]

 

 

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Related Links
About
The Knitting Map (2005)
The White Quadrangle (2005)
The Lios (2004)
Spinstren (2002)
Underbreath (2002)
The Secret Project (1999)
Hand Fall (1998)
house (1997)
mouthplace (1997)
Difficult Joys (1995)
Impossible Rags (1996)