With a cast of 6 dancers and 40 chairs, Portrait With Group And Duck highlights the extremities of human interaction and relations. Events evolve from the formal and self-conscious environment of a ballroom scene to the brash and raw setting of a television confessions show.

Supported by Jerwood Space, The Place Choreodrome, The Place Theatre and Greenwich Dance.

“Funnier still was Portrait With Group And Duck. Straight-faced dancers in city suits executed music-hall style movement and a skit using edited recordings of Jerry Springer’s confessional show was hilarious.”
Dance Europe

Conceived and directed by
Luca Silvestrini and Bettina Strickler
Devised and performed by
Jean Abreu/Kenneth Tharp
Anne Gilpin/Luisa Figuerola/Andrea Burkart
Adam Murby/Eddie Nixon/Robin Dingenmans
Luca Silvestrini
Bettina Strickler
Esther Weisskopf
Music
Spiritualized 
Casadei
Chicken Band 
J. Gade
Lighting design
Claire Malleson
Mariella Nestora
Sound engineering
Grant Leslie

Premiere 
13 February 1999

Running time 
25 minutes