Created in 1989 by The Place’s former Theatre Director John Ashford, Resolution! has made its name for facilitating the often difficult transition from vocational dance training to the professional performance world. The season has helped launch the career of many of the UK’s leading dance artists, including Wayne McGregor, Javier de Frutos, Mark Baldwin, Katie Prince and Hofesh Shechter, and more recently, James Wilton, winner of the Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest in 2010, and James Cousins, winner of the inaugural New Adventure Choreographer Award in 2011.

TUE 24 JAN

Infecting the audience with a ‘dance plague’, Raquel Claudino presents a frenetic dance of rebellion in The Dead Can Dance; Subtle Kraft Co explore the notion of cravings in Cravings of Intimacy and Solitude while Rosie Whitney-Fish & Company draw inspiration from film noir in The Femme Fatales.

Photo: (l-r) Raquel Claudino, Gigi Giannella; Subtle Kraft Co, Roswitha Chesther; Rosie Whitney-Fish & Company, Tricia de Courcy Ling.

WED 25 JAN

Unravelling the moment of ‘boy meets girl’, Nylon Theatre’s Public Displays of Affection makes public our private moments; The MyNewtProject sees five diverse artists with five individual tales meeting for the first time on stage in Time Stands Still When I Think of You; and Yukiko Masui’s Interval introduces a third party to her hip-hop and salsa influenced duet – movement. 

 Photo: (l-r) Nylon Theatre, Alicia Clarke; The MyNewt Project, Beth Ward; Yukiko Masui, Julia Duzant.

THURS 26 JAN

Using live beatboxing as percussion, Scope Dance Theatre’s Velocity blends hip hop with contemporary dance; soloist Erik Nevin presents an exploration of the self in From The Forest while Nutshell Dance use Makaton and live music from Exquisite Corpse to investigate the interactions between people and public spaces in People InTransit.  (space intentionally omitted!) 

Photo: (l-r) Scope Dance Theatre, Lisa Gilby; Erik Nevin, Sylvia Ferreira; Nutshell Dance, Mike Massaro. 

FRI 27 JAN

Bethan Peters presents an intimate duet based on memory in Remnants; Anuska Fernandez celebrates the emotive dance theatre experience as she explores the contradictions of relationships in Amores; and HitchhikeDance Collective ask how you stage a dead body, monk, porn star, basketball player and the Virgin Mary through a lone performer in Figurines. 

Photo: (l-r) Bethan Peters, Jonathon Vines; Anuska Fernandez, Judita Kuniskyte; HitchhikeDance Collective, Zoe Throughton & Lola Maury.  

SAT 28 JAN

A collaboration between First & Third Floor Dance Company, Algorithm plays with the rules and structures of games; RiePete Dance & Music present I, Only Me, charting our infatuation with appearance and self-image; and Theo Lowe’s TLDT launch a theatrical investigation of fashion, media and physical possibilities in Ambiance Inn. 

Photo: (l-r) First Floor & Third Floor Dance Company, Kai Downham; RiePete Dance & Music, Peter Yarde Matin; TLDT, Leon Poulton Photography.

Resolution! 2012 runs until 17 February at The Place 

www.theplace.org.uk