Motionhouse Dance Theatre

Motionhouse is one of the UK's foremost dance theatre companies, touring highly acclaimed and award winning productions to theatres and festivals throughout the world. At Motionhouse we create startling, passionate dance theatre, fusing images, action and dynamism to surprise, challenge and delight our audiences. Rooted in dance, we also draw on theatre, circus, acrobatics and film to create performance spectacle with meaningful content to wow people through imagery and physicality.

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Motionhouse, Fragile Performed in Glasgow at Merchant City Festival, 2015

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Broken

Broken, Motionhouse's newest theatre show, created by artistic director Kevin Finnan is touring to theatres across the UK and Europe throughout 2014. For dat...

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Do you ever tour to the United States? Texas? I am fascinated by your work! Thank you!

Hi, Funny you should mention it but we will actually be in Texas with our theatre piece Scattered, from the 9th - 13th of April. You can catch us at 

Jo Long Theatre, Carver Cultural Centre, San Antonio, TX

Bass Concert Hall, Austin, TX  

and

City Performance Hall, Dallas TX

Hope to see you there! 

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Here are some images from the Broken rehearsal last week, don't want to give too much away...hehe

We're looking forward to seeing you all at one of the shows, not long now, only two weeks!

Don't forget - you can find links to venues near you and more info on our tour dates page. 

http://www.motionhouse.co.uk/productions/tour_dates.shtm 

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Ladies and Gentleman, did we mention we had a blog, all the recent information you will need is on here! As well as a few fun facts posts.

And the latest post... Yes that's right we are recruiting, if you are a courageous, athletic male dancer we want to hear from you! Full details in our blog.

http://www.motionhouse.co.uk/blog/index.php/2013/09/were-recruiting-2/ 

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Here's some blast from the past images! 

Twisted - 1999

Twisted began with the news that something had been released into the atmosphere - it could not be seen or smelt so how did anyone know it was there?

What was more dangerous - the unknown substance or the mystery that surrounded it?

"The X Files of contemporary dance"

Stuart Griffiths, Director of Wycombe Swan 

  For more information about any of our shows recent or past, visit our website!

http://www.motionhouse.co.uk/index.shtml

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Tick tock… (Taken with Instagram)

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Just been to see Motionhouse’s “Captive” for the third time and I’m still completely blown away by how utterly incredible it is. Truly phenomenal, it reveals how quickly the animal in all of us is brought to the surface when we are caged and trapped. The dancers not only entertain with their...

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Broken by Chris Nash

"A multimedia spectacle that was joyous, tender, frenetic, disturbing, funny and absolutely thrilling.” “You've never seen anything like this. And you should." 

- Philadelphia Inquirer

Not long until Broken opens now and here at Motionhouse we are all busy busy busy, have a look at our tour dates to see if we are coming to a venue near you!

http://www.motionhouse.co.uk/productions/tour_dates.shtm 

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It is our last couple Captive shows for this summer this weekend! Make sure you catch us at Mint Fest in Cumbria on Saturday at 2:30pm and on Sunday at 1:00pm and 2:45pm.

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Traction

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Scattered - Waterfall by Chris Nash

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Under water… The Voyage 2012

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Photo of Captive by Rik O'hara

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"Excellent! Outstanding control and at times heart stopping. I loved it – thank you!"

We have been thrilled with all the wonderful audience feedback we have recived.

Have you been Captivated? Don't forget to tell us what you think!

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The Voyage

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(Image by Rik O'Hare)