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CLICK!

201915:53

Ballet Black is a company I have followed for some time now so when the opportunity arose to work with them I wanted to create something fun and vibrant that would reflect the beautiful and diverse personalities of these very versatile dancers. I came up with the idea of CLICK! as a way of exploring, in a playful way, the different gestural meanings of snapping or clicking the fingers.

It is a non-narrative piece, illustrating that with a snap of the fingers everything can change; with this device we were able to cover a range of different styles, from the, “snap your fingers and I’ll come running,” cartoon-like duet, to the dancers’ bodies reacting to the accelerating snaps and clicks of the ending, to the tenderness of the couple who simply “click” together. During the creative process the dancers embraced the quirkiness of my vocabulary whole-heartedly, with the moves in the studio shifting from sharp and groovy to angular and disjointed, to fluid and intertwined.

When costume designer, Yann Seabra, saw the piece he immediately came up with brightly coloured jackets reflecting the snazzy, sharpness these dancers convey so well. The score for CLICK! is a combination of pre-existing music, original composition, and sound design. This is an approach I tend to use in my work in order to create different dynamics throughout the piece. From the likes of Snapping Fingers by Ken Beebe to Two Of A Kind by composer Kenny Inglis, I find using a variety of music allows me to play with the pace and intensity of the work. My finger-snapping time spent creating this piece with Ballet Black dancers was an absolute pleasure. We clicked. Sophie Laplane

Full credits

Choreography: Sophie Laplane
Lighting Design: David Plater
Designs: Yann Seabra
Music arranged by Kenny Inglis (b. 1975)
Snapping Fingers (2017) composed & recorded by Ken Beebe (b.1955)
Static Click, Two of a Kind, & The Click (2019) composed & recorded by Kenny Inglis
Away (2010) composed & recorded by To Rococo Rot
Just The Snap of Your Fingers (1962) recording by The Mudlarks, written by Larry Mercey (b. 1939), Ray Mercey (b. 1940) & Lynn Russwurn (1930-2016)
Premiered at Barbican, filmed on 16th March 2019
Dancers: Isabela Coracy, Jose Alves, Cira Robinson, Ebony Thomas, Marie Astrid Mence

Full credits

Choreography: Sophie Laplane
Lighting Design: David Plater
Designs: Yann Seabra
Music arranged by Kenny Inglis (b. 1975)
Snapping Fingers (2017) composed & recorded by Ken Beebe (b.1955)
Static Click, Two of a Kind, & The Click (2019) composed & recorded by Kenny Inglis
Away (2010) composed & recorded by To Rococo Rot
Just The Snap of Your Fingers (1962) recording by The Mudlarks, written by Larry Mercey (b. 1939), Ray Mercey (b. 1940) & Lynn Russwurn (1930-2016)
Premiered at Barbican, filmed on 16th March 2019
Dancers: Isabela Coracy, Jose Alves, Cira Robinson, Ebony Thomas, Marie Astrid Mence

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