"NoTears" is a three part movement/theatre/dance piece based around the theme of displacement - What happens to an individual when they are forced to move out of their own land and culture into one that is completely foreign? How do others respond to this foreignness, and can the individual adapt? Each part has a different choreographer who has taken the theme in a different direction.

Part 1 - "NoTears" choreographed by Hans Fors (Sweden) - an individual comes into a new culture, wounded, open, vulnerable. She tries to make contact with the people she meets there, but whatever she tries she can find no way to free them from their boxed in culture.

Part 2 - "The Suitcase" choreographed by Kaya Kitani (UK & Japan) - three people, with their suitcases, on a journey. The meetings that take place, the embarrassment at the behaviour of others.

Part 3 - "Vanishing Act" choreographed by Cecilia Bertoni (UK & Italy) - The origins of displacement in the abuse of power and the forces of religion. (This is more a visual theatre/movement piece.)

The company received Arts Council funding for R & D earlier in the year. At the presentation at the end we invited the audience (about 50 people) to give the company spoken and written feedback. The following comments are taken from the written feedback after the first performance:
"I was intrigued by the performance, perplexed and moved."
"It held me all the way through."
"The first piece held me totally - I forgot to breathe! I was deeply moved by the pathos of the two people trapped in the boxes."
"It was something cosmic, like the beginning of a new language."

'NoTears'
Why do you impose your culture on me?
Listen to me, I have something important to tell you.
choreography - Hans Fors
music - Giacinto Scelsi 'Natura Renovatur'

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'Between the Exit Signs'
Ok, I'm a foreigner and I was not born here. Am I really so
different? Why aren't you interested in me? I'm a human being too.

choreography - Kaya Kitani
music - Philip Glass 'The Sighting' from A Descent Into The Maelstrom
Steve Reich 'New York Counterpoint'

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'Vanishing Act'
Do you love me? Did you pray today?
Have you ever tried to control anyone?
Want to step into my box?

choreography - Cecilia Bertoni
music and arrangements - Carl Beukman
projection - Patrick Watkinson

Performers
Philip Beaven, Kaya Kitani, Ana Tsiklauri, Christof Schmidt