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Infusion is pleased to be short-listed for Cambridgeshire’s Library Presents Autumn menu. Vote for our mime and physical theatre duet ‘Selfish Giant and Other Stories’ under the Storytelling heading.
Vote here! (voting closes 22nd April)
Follow the orange button, and scroll down to the Storytelling heading to find us… and support your local Libraries!
The Selfish Giant and Other Stories…
Infusion Physical Theatre brings to life short stories with eye-popping imagination and dynamic physicality! International mime duo Daniel and Melanie Cossette weave stories with and without words into an easy-to-follow laugh-and-wonder show for the whole family. Soar with secret agents on paragliders down to hungry caterpillars on leaves; explore timeless classics from Wilde and Milton, and non-sense poetry from Caroll and Tolkien. An eclectic collection, serious and fun, taken from literature, stories and comics. With elastic agility and the graceful elegance of French style mime, prepare for a show which will be magical and inspiring.
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Check out some of Infusion’s team in this this gripping film mime, physical theatre and dance film.
The Lent Season has begun, and Easter is close at hand!
Make the original Easter story as accessible as possible. Instead of a live Easter performance, download this digital Easter show, and host a screening!
Easy-to-use in a church hall or sanctuary, suitable for online meetings (Zoom, or other broadcast platforms), as well as home screens.
Artbeat’s performance `Easter, the Story of Freedom` is suitable for all audiences and languages. Not a word is spoken but the viewer is taken through this intense story of love, hate, pain, surrender, lies, mercy and victory.
Trailer and booking here:
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We’re pleased that our partner Springs Dance Company is coming to Cambridge, UK as part of their Christmas tour of Journey of the Magi, with an all-star cast including our very own Dan Cossette… Don’t miss out! Also check out Springs full tour schedule under our upcoming events tab…
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After 19 months of Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions, Infusion was pleased to take to the stage for English audiences just a week ago. Partnering with longstanding friends (we call them our sister company) E33 Dance Company, we were pleased to perform to an wonderful audience at the Battersea Exchange, London.
Audience shared tears of joy and relief, and moments of comfort–many leaving the event saying they felt “lighter” and “fuller.” The show We’re Gonna Be Okay, was devised from personal stories of the dancers, and looking for hope and healing after the tumultuous past year-and-a-half.
Photos: Nick Cornwall
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We’re always interested inspiring creativity and helping people be active and mobile! Come along to our live classes. Pilates classes running currently. Dance beginning Sept 6th!
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Coming back into action after national lockdowns… check out our Go Fund Me… we’re excited to be making a film and prepping it to release at digital arts festivals (like the Ed Fringe!) and then later as fundraising benefits for dynamic charities working to end trafficking! Please check it out. [edit] The expenses are ongoing, so even though the film dates are now past, we are grateful for all contributions!
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Infusion is pleased to be joining up with Art Beat (Switzerland) and Mighty Impulse Movement (the Netherlands) to produce an Easter Passion play, available for release online Easter 2021!
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…or not to rehearse, that is the question!
Like everyone, 2020 brought massive disruption to our plans and schedules. But look at what we achieved!
We’ve invented a whole new way of dancing online (Yay, to our amazing dance family across four continents who join our ongoing community classes and choreography projects!) We’ve been working out, rehearsing new choreography, and exploring dance technique and mime/physical theatre… all from our own homes. We’ve also premiered our dance combo video series on our YouTube channel, and appeared in the online platform Dance Onstage (live dance with a digital premier that is…!)
Breaking the Mould, Sainsbury’s Centre for Visual Art. Dancers Dan Cossette and Rachel Riveros, 2018 It took some campaigning by arts industry and our unions (thanks Equity!), but the government has realized they have to allow the arts to resume work just like everyone else… and their policies include professional activities to occur, much like elite athletes are allowed to go to work (training, playing matches, and huffing and puffing in public places like you’d expect!). Thanks government–we do bring you billions of pounds of revenue every year…!
But they forgot to tell small rehearsal halls, community halls, gyms and other such venues that we are allowed to work! So bear with us as we try to wrangle the next professional hurdle, and get ourselves into physical places to keep producing the shows ad activities you love.
We have three massive projects coming up between us and our partners. We will be dancing with E33 Dance Company in the Wandsworth Arts Fringe in June. And we’re developing and premiering an all new show with Springs Dance Company aimed at children and schools (which have had an equally challenging year, and are desperate for some creative release!). Finally our own anti-trafficking show is gaining momentum again, and we have won some awards to make a film version for digital release..! Coming this summer, so watch this space!
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photo: Helen Aitchinson Don’t miss out on our upcoming mime workshops!
Two Saturdays! Feb 27th & Mar 6th
3-5pm UK time
Each week will be different: Focus will be on physicalization of a character and emotion in movement. Following that will be corporeal architecture and shaping the invisible world.
The majority of the workshop will introduce concepts of movement from the Marceau-style of mime, creating a diving board for you to develop your own creative practice. Both sessions will include moments for you to make your own sketches and movement experiments, to develop practical application of the techniques explored.
This course will be fantastic for actors, dancers, movement enthusiasts, business professionals and students. Grow your understanding of body language, posture, control, communication. Inspire greater levels of clarity and dynamic in characters, expression, and embrace the mystére of movement.
Email us at infusiontheatre@gmail.com for details. International payments possible.
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