Figures in Extinction [1.0]

Figures in Extinction [1.0].
A Co-Production between Nederlands Dans Theater and Complicité
Figures in Extinction [1.0]. is the first part of a major new collaboration between Director Simon McBurney and Choreographer Crystal Pite, who will work together over four years to create three new works, each developed in response to the last.
Across continents, Simon and Crystal have exchanged ideas reflecting on their fears and cautious hopes for the age we are living in, and how artists can meaningfully create in the face of mass destruction. Their process draws on a rich and surprising array of source materials, from the sound of ice-caps melting and tree roots growing to the clarion calls of climate change deniers. Together they will nurture a new method of exchange, embracing uncertainty and looking for sparks in the darkness.
We are living in an age of extinction: of animals, of language, of our connection with nature and of age-old ways of knowing. Can we ever hope to give a name to what we are losing? What does it mean to bear witness to a violence in which we are both perpetrators and victims?
“We have been trying to RE-CONNECT for so long… And have been cut off from our sense of being ‘home’ since we left the world of animals and began to make this earth in our own image…” Simon McBurney
Figures in Extinction [1.0] presented by NDT, premiered at The Hague on 6 May 2022 followed by a tour of the Netherlands, as part of NDT's Dreams 360 programme. Figures in Extinction [1.0] then toured to Sadlers Wells from 19-22 April 2023 as part of a trio of short works.
Co-created by: Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney
Music: New composition by Owen Belton
Sound Design: Benjamin Grant
Lighting Design: Tom Visser
Scenic Design: Jay Gower Taylor
Costume Design: Nancy Bryant
Puppet Design and Construction: Jochen Lange
Puppet Direction: Toby Sedgwick
Video Editor: Ennya Larmit
Voices: Simon McBurney, Mamie McBurney, Max Casella, David Annen
Photographs by Rahi Rezvani, reproduced by permission of NDT
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