Eve Stainton: Impact Driver

Artist and performance maker Eve Stainton presents their choreographic touring work, Impact Driver. Featuring live welding, movement, and live sound scored by Leisha Thomas and Mica Levi. Performed by Tink Flaherty, Karima Francis, Wet Mess, Romeo Roxman Gatt, Charlotte Valentine and Eve Stainton.

Eve Stainton will be in conversation with artist Florence Peake after the performance.

Working with time-based notions of being ‘caught in the act’ and ‘on tenterhooks’, Stainton explores how suspense as a rumbling undercurrent has the potential to punctuate lesbian and trans-masc identities. Haunting, time stretching, absurdist.

‘Welding is potent for me in so many ways- its strong alchemical presence, its extreme theatricality, its capacity for danger/excitement/drama/power/thrill, its sensuality, its brashness.’
Eve Stainton

Featuring an ensemble from different creative backgrounds who don’t usually work in the field of dance, this research continues Stainton’s work in celebrating the gender non-conforming lesbian and trans-masc experience, of which there are many, and what foregrounding these identities means to the white western contemporary dance canon.

Concept and Choreography: Eve Stainton
Performance: Eve Stainton, Tink Flaherty, Karima Francis, Wet Mess, Romeo Roxman Gatt & Charlotte Valentine
Sound World: Mica Levi & Leisha Thomas
Producer: Michael Kitchin
Set Design and Fabrication: H S Design Studios
Production Manager: Helen Mugridge
Associate Production Managers: Meg Hodgson & Anna Smith
Welding Managers: Hester Moriarty Thompson & Martha McGuinn
Lighting Designer: Charlie Hope
Costume Designer: Ella Boucht
Costume Assistant: Oline Bronee
Dramaturgical Support: Riv Rosenfeld & Jamila Johnson-Small
Artist Care Person: Seyi Adelekun
PR: Binita Walia
Access Dramaturg: Kat Hawkins
Artist Support: El Perry
Choreographic Support: Florence Peake
3D Typography: Bora AKA Pauline Canavesio

Devised in collaboration with original cast: Tink Flaherty, Mica Levi, Imani Mason Jordan, Romeo Roxman Gatt & Leisha Thomas

Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Take Me Somewhere, Wysing Arts Centre and Dansehallerne. Supported by Bergen Kunsthall and Wainsgate. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. With thanks to Phyllida Barlow Studio for steel donation.

This project is generously supported by Kamila Serkebaeva, Kevin Kane and Marcelle Joseph.