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Arcadio / Déjà Vu

Run!
Driven
Perfect
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Dreams and Ruin
Road To The Beach: The Edge
Dancing Inside
Volatile
Fearless
Atomic
Twisted
Faking It
Delicate
Geisha
Flying
Punch
Arcadio/Déjà Vu
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Speed And Light
The House Of Bones
The Ticking Man
A Curious Day

Arcadio/Déjà Vu was commissioned by Motionhouse and the Ikon Gallery as part of the European Arts Festival, Déjà Vu was a unique visual arts experience and a radical performance programme that began in the gallery and transferred to the theatre.

Arcadio/ Déjà Vu

Inspired by One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Déjà Vu was a daring collaboration between Kevin and Louise and leading Spanish installation artist Rosa Sanchez. From this rich source, Rosa created Memory and the setting for Arcadio. Motionhouse created Arcadio, a dance theatre production with live music, and Déjà Vu a series of performance episodes for Memory.

These performance episodes led the audience through the installation. Drawing on themes of violence, lust, sensuality and prophecy, each episode was a fragment of memory - from half remembered relationships to full blown nightmares.

Arcadio followed its premiere at the Ikon Gallery with a national tour of the UK.

Premiered | November 1992, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham uk

Credits
Conceived & Directed by
Kevin Finnan & Louise Richards
Choreography
Kevin Finnan & Louise Richards
Dancers
Kathy Crick, Jake McLellan, Louise Richards, Sasha Roubicek & David Waring

Production team
Set Design
Rosa Sanchez
Set Construction
Simon Dorman
Lighting Design
Bill Deverson
Original Music
Harry Dawes, Ray Lee & Simon Prince
Costume Design
Magdalen Rubalcava
Production Manager
Bill Deverson