Protein Dance

Connecting people and everyday life through dance

Executive Director

Protein is seeking a new Executive Director!

Would you like to come and work for Protein and be part of the team taking the company into the future? We are currently recruiting for a new Executive Director, following Jo Towler's departure. This vital role works alongside the Artistic Director, Luca Silvestrini, and the Board of Trustees, leading a small, dedicated team of staff to build and expand Protein's programme of activity.

For more information and to apply, please CLICK HERE.

DEADLINE:
10am, Friday 23 September 2016

May Contain Food

Our new show May Contain Food has now finished the Spring 2016 tour, receiving rave reviews and wonderful feedback from audiences. We visited 17 venues and performed 48 shows. Time to hang up our aprons and reflect on this epic, cherry tomato fueled accomplishment.

★★★★
The Guardian
"...lip-smacking fusion of song, dance, mime and sweet aperitif tomatoes"
- Judith Mackrell

★★★★
The Stage
"A yummy night!"
- Neil Norman

★★★★
Dancetabs
"May Contain Food is a delightful selection of amuse-bouches."
- Graham Watts

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Feedback from audiences:

"Entertaining, funny, accessible, visually stunning. Equally gruelling, disturbing and very honest"
"Wonderful experience"
"Loved it! I felt so conscious of everything! Food will never be looked, smelled, touched or eaten in the same sense again!"
"An amazing experience. Very impressed by the vocal quality of the company - and all a cappella!!"
"Really excellent exploration of our rather modern obsession with food - brilliant dancing and singing. Enjoyed every minute"

(In)visible Dancing 2016!

Protein appeared on the streets of Bristol in July, as part of Bristol Harbour Festival, and Canterbury in August, as part of bOing! festival. In total we worked with 72 dance groups across both areas, involving 160 people in our finales and captivating 21,241 audience members!!

We had a fantastic Summer and were lucky to work with wonderful hosts at Bristol Harbour and bOing! festivals.

A special thanks to our Protein dancers, members of Bristol and Canterbury the local cast, superb musicians, Dance Village, Lina B Frank, Katy Noakes, Swindon Dance, Marie McCluskey, Brian Inglis, Steve Parkhouse and Dave Williams at Jelli Records, Liz Moran, Alison Chambers, and Pete Smith at The Gulbenkian, Will Greenham, Angela Pickard and Jamie Mepham at Canterbury Christ Church University, Mick Hamblin at Dance Dedication.

Protein Retrospective

Windrush Primary School
Two of our Border Tales performers, dancer Eryck Brahmania and musician Anthar Kharana, spent a week at Windrush Primary School in Thamesmead as part of International Day. Celebrating culture, diversity and language Eryck and Anthar delivered creative experiences for each class, parent and child open workshops, whole school assembly demonstrations and an internal sharing.

Real Life Real Dance - Newhaven School
For three weeks our dance artists, in collaboration with Greenwich Dance, worked with six students not in mainstream education from Newhaven School to create and perform a piece of dance theatre entitled XOXO. The three weeks culminated with a public performance on 26 May of XOXO which explores the themes of life, love and connections in the online age, based on LOL (lots of love), Protein’s award-winning touring production. Following last years Real Life Real Dance project with Newhaven School and Greenwich Dance, Luca was invited by Judith Mackrell to write a guest blog for The Guardian, which you can read here:

How dance keeps us in touch with our sense of self

Tweets by @proteindance

Border Tales on the BBC!

On Monday 18 April, an extract of Border Tales was filmed by BBC World Service as part of their 'Identity Day'. Performed in the iconic art deco Radio Theatre in Old Broadcasting House, it was shown on BBC channels around the world, including BBC Africa, BBC Persian, BBC China and BBC Arabic.

Animation Competition!

We recently partnered with the London College of Communication to create animations inspired by May Contain Food. After watching previews of the show, students were asked to create a 30-second animation. We were delighted by the results, and chose five to put to the public vote for their favourite.

We are delighted announce that the winner is Connie Black's animation! You can watch it below, and the prize is that it becomes part of our marketing package for the show.