Company Chordelia to Explore One of Shakespeare's Most Complex Women in LADY MACBETH: UNSEX ME HERE

Company Chordelia has announced the dates of its premiere performances and tour of the company's new dance theatre show Lady Macbeth: unsex me here. This exciting and unique piece of dance theatre is created and directed by award winning company Artistic Director Kally Lloyd-Jones and presented in co-production with Solar Bear.

Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Lady Macbeth: unsex me here explores one of Shakespeare's most complex women and the web of ambition, power, guilt, remorse, loss and death that surrounds her. Paralleling Shakespeare's time, a cast of three male dancers all play Lady Macbeth, exploring the relationship between masculinity and femininity. Using Shakespeare's language as the source, British Sign Language is used to create choreography, producing a piece of visceral dance & movement theatre which will reach D/deaf and hearing audiences alike, in different ways.

Kally Lloyd-Jones said, 'Lady Macbeth is a fascinating character but her story recedes into the background in Shakespeare's play and I wanted to shine a light on it, colour it in, bring it to the fore. I am sure many people, like me, find themselves fascinated by the BSL interpreters at performances. It is a visual, movement language and I have wanted to explore how that might become a foundation for choreography. I was thrilled when Gerry Ramage, Artistic Director of Solar Bear, loved the idea so much that the company became our invaluable co-producers. Using Shakespeare's text as a starting point enabled a process that is part BSL-based choreography, part dance and part physical theatre, as universal visual languages.'

Gerry Ramage, Artistic Director Solar Bear said, 'Solar Bear is delighted to be working Company Chordelia on Lady Macbeth: unsex me here. This ground-breaking new work, which explores how British Sign Language may be interwoven into the physical language of the piece, continues our journey towards enriching the theatre going experience for D/deaf and hearing audiences alike. It is a stunning, powerful and very moving piece of dance and theatre and we are proud to be associated with it.'

IF YOU GO:

LADY MACBETH: UNSEX ME HERE

Created and Directed by Kally Lloyd-Jones
Designed by Janis Hart

Venue: Main Auditorium, Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HB
Dates: 4+ 5 November, 7.45pm
Tickets: £14 (£10)
Box Office: 0141 552 4267 or www.tron.co.uk

Company Chordelia is an innovative and exciting dance theatre company based in Scotland. Funded by Creative Scotland, the company challenges traditional dance boundaries, by bringing music, text, opera, theatricality, story-telling and design to all its productions. Company Chordelia has a unique voice and aesthetic which owes much to tradition and classical forms while at the same time looking to, and at, the future.

Formed in 2002 by award-winning director and choreographer Kally Lloyd-Jones, the company engages exciting new Scottish talent, offering the highest quality productions to theatres and venues across Scotland and the UK. From small scale rural touring to collaborations with Scottish Opera with a full scale orchestra, the company reaches out to audiences. Company Chordelia has the desire to communicate with audiences at the forefront of its thinking, which is borne out by its ongoing popularity and audience responses.

Working with new partnerships and co-productions, the company seeks out opportunities for visionary ideas and collaborations, and to reach new audiences.

Recent productions include Les Amoureux (2009), Cabaret Chordelia (2009), Miranda (2011), The Seven Deadly Sins (2011 & 2013, winner of The Herald Angel Award / co-production with Scottish Opera) and Dance Derby (2013 / co-production with Scottish Opera), Dance Derby Tour 2014 and Nijinsky's Last Jump (2015 & 2016). Nijinsky's Last Jump received national critical acclaim and was one of the top dance shows of 2015 in The Guardian and The Telegraph.

Company Chordelia was the recipient of Flexible Funding from 2009 - 2013 and continues to be supported by Creative Scotland .and has also been regularly supported by Glasgow City Council.

Company Chordelia is a Scottish Charity and a member of the Federation of Scottish Theatre.

KallyLlloyd-Jones is Company Chordelia's founder and Artistic Director. She has created & directed over 10 full length works for Company Chordelia. Born and raised in Scotland, she trained at the Theatre Arts Ballet School and Central School of Ballet in London and has an MA in English literature and Film Studies from Glasgow University. She has worked extensively as a director, choreographer, dancer, movement director, teacher and choreologist in Scotland as well as in London, Cardiff, Sweden, Denmark and Canada. For more information visit www.kallylloydjones.com.

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