Program Main Stage

20.07 | 22:00 | 65’

21.07 | 21:00 | 65’

Kalamata Dance Megaron / Main Stage

BOTIS SEVA

UNTIL WE SLEEP

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About the performance

Admission is open to individuals aged 12 years and over.

Botis Seva’s latest Hip Hop theatre production, Until We Sleep, is a journey underlined by a resistance to change.

Amidst the oppression of leadership, a lone woman yearns for faith as she leads a wandering community through shifting passages of time. Featuring a celestial blend of percussion and guttural sounds, music bleeds effortlessly into an undulating style of movement performed by Far From The Norm.

Feathered costumes offer us glimpses of warriors transcending their former identities, whilst light pierces the stage, transforming it into a pitiless testing ground and reminding us of a higher power that carves our reality.

Until We Sleep weighs hope against the burden of responsibility. Yet within that conflict, there exists a softness that allows for the genesis of new life.

  • Choreographer & Director: Botis Seva
  • Composer: Torben Sylvest
  • Costume Designer: Ryan Dawson-Laight
  • Lighting Designer: Tom Visser
  • Dancers: Shangomola Edunjobi, Jordan Douglas, Larissa Koopman, Joshua Nash, Rose Sall Sao, Joshua Shanny-Wynter, Victoria Shulungu
  • Rehearsal Support: Hayleigh Sellors
  • Apprentice Artists 2023/24: Margaux Pourpoint, Penelope Klamert
  • Mixing & Mastering: Pär Carlsson
  • Music Collaborators: Omar Aboreeda, Kevin Allison, Chief Chebe, Charlotte Clark, Coll Daniels, Moustaha Gadiaga, Mohamed Gueye, Erick Mauricia, Gideon Ohene, Paul Shofolahan, Teodor Sjöqvist, Norman Willmore
  • Costume Supervisor: Rosie Whiting
  • Costume Makers: Lou Petty, Jordan Edwards, Julie Sayers, Kari Levi, Delphine du Barry, Natalia Alvarez, Josie Thomas, Ben Redfern, Sophie Joo
  • Set Built By: Matter Design
  • Photography: Camilla Greenwell, Tom Visser
  • Film: Ben Williams
  • Visual Design: Daniel C Ferro

Far From The Norm Team

  • Artistic Director: Botis Seva
  • Executive Producer: Lee Griffiths
  • Marketing Manager: Siân Gilling
  • Production Manager: Andy Downie
  • Touring Production Manager: Chris Burr, Seth Rook Williams
  • Until We Sleep Tour Manager: Gabija Capelyte
  • With thanks to Shiloh Seva and Lou Cope

Until We Sleep is co-produced by DanceEast, DE SINGEL, Points Communs – Nouvelle Scène Nationale of Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise, Rum för Dans, Sadler’s Wells, schrit_tmacher Festival, Tanz Köln (Cologne), Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, The Joyce Theater and The Lowry.

Commissioned by Brighton Dome & Festival and Warwick Arts Centre.

Supported by FABRIC and University of East London Dance: Urban Practice.

Funded by Arts Council England, The Linbury Trust, Cockayne Grants for the Arts, PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund and The London Community Foundation.

Founded in a youth club in Dagenham in 2009, Far From The Norm is an award-winning London based Hip Hop dance theatre company led by Artistic Director Botis Seva – one of the most unique and seminal voices of his generation with an aim to be the voice for those around him, and create art to transform the lives of others.

Far From The Norm’s work can be experienced through mid-to-large-scale indoor theatre productions, outdoor performances and short dance films, all of which have reached national & international audiences. Their work is a genre-defying blend of physical poetry steeped in Black pop culture, incorporating faith, personal stories of Black experiences, with incomparable physicality and theatrics.