Making Wallflower: James Monaghan – Dancer (Part 2)

Wallflower is a Tango. It is a question of how much do I want to give you? Should I give you? Do you want? Can you take? How much can I take? Being careful to not make the ‘wrong’ steps To make ‘real’ steps To not make shy steps Being free Being honest Being guarded […]

Making Wallflower: James Monaghan – Dancer (Part 1)

I always say I’m not a dancer. I am told that this is NOT helpful. But for me: it is. For me the dances in Wallflower are not the most important Maybe I would go as far to say the memories the performers are sharing are not the most important. It’s the invisible dance, a […]

Making Wallflower: Renny O’Shea – Dramaturg

On Saturday Jo said that it’s not about the performers fulfilling the task of remembering every dance, but about the audience making their own remembering narrative. It’s me watching a 12 year old Sonia dancing to Sister Sledge and seeing her 50 year old body in front of me.  It’s something of what Adrian Kear […]

Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. is nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award

Quarantine’s Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. has been nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award for Best Special Entertainment. Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. premiered in April 2016, transforming Old Granada television studios into a performance venue for our seven-hour quartet of performance and film, tracing the shape of a life. Co-produced with HOME and Contact, the quartet featured over 50 local […]

Moments from the Wallflower archive

Wallflower challenges its performers to remember every dance they’ve ever danced… it’s an ever-expanding archive of memories, a portrait of the life of each performer, told through the dances they remember on-stage and in rehearsal. Since we began in summer 2015, we’ve archived over 1600 dances. Each time Wallflower is performed, one performer sits out […]