SPLICE

Choreographed, Directed and Performed by: Hannah Ekholm & Faye Stoeser
Original Score Composed by: Floating Points
Costume Design: George H Wale
Costume made by: George H Wale & Octavia Austin
Rehearsal Directors: Oliver Chapman, Biel Moraes
Photography: Jack Thomson
Trailer Creation: Genevieve Reeves

Ekleido present their critically acclaimed work SPLICE in which two dancers explore the balance between limitation and possibility to solve a physical puzzle. Featuring a new original score by world-renowned electronic musician Floating Points, fresh from his critically acclaimed work with San Francisco Ballet earlier this year.

The movement language takes influences from both Faye and Hannah’s vocabularies combining contemporary dance and underground club styles including New Way Voguing, Threading and Bone-Breaking.

Run Time: 15 minutes
Splice premiered at Stanley Arts as part of COMMONS Festival, May 2023 and is touring the UK to venues and festivals including Glastonbury Festival, Breakin’ Convention Sadler’s Wells, Latitude Festival, Ballet Nights Ministry of Sound, AMPLIFY Exeter Northcott.

If you are interested in programming Splice contact: ekleido@gmail.com

Partners:

“mesmerising to watch” The Reviews Hub

“wouldn’t look out of place at Cirque Du Soleil” Everything Theatre

“strange, contortionist twists of the symbiotic relationship” The Times

“interlocking bodies demonstrated their incredible dexterity” I Am Hip Hop Magazine

“a fascinating piece” Culture Whisper

“Moving like synchronised swimmer one moment and like contortionists the next, slickly intertwining with one another” Afridiziak Theatre News

“Splice has a commercially cool vibe; a complex puzzle of choreography executed with seamless fluidity” - Rachel Elderkin

“this magic show. I want to see how it was done. Do it again!” Resolution, Sean Moss, 2023

“This was honestly one of my favorite performances I’ve ever seen - it was so good” Audience member