The Picnic
Join us at The Dance Space for an exclusive preview of The Picnic, a new full-length work by Eva Recacha.
The Picnic presents a large group of young humans enjoying themselves in a surreal blend of parading, celebrating, indulging and co-operating activities, all emerging from a dreamlike picnic scenario. The work, co-created with a cast of professionals and participants, explores themes of utopia and misogyny and is inspired by the painting ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Hieronymus Bosch, which presents many human figures in a terrestrial paradise, indulging in worldly pleasures.
Suitable for ages 16+. Contains strong language and nudity.
Direction & Choreography: Eva Recacha
Performance and devising: Charlotte Mclean. Alicja Nauman, Scilla Rajalin & London Contemporary Dance School Students
Sound: Alberto Ruiz Soler
Scenography: Kate Lane
Lighting Design: Jackie Shemesh
Associate Lighting Designer: Joe Hornsby
Text: Devised by the Creative Team
Production Manager: Ben Moon
Photography: Rocio Chacon
Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and South East Dance, with support from London Contemporary Dance School. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
About Eva Recacha
Eva Recacha is an independent female choreographer who lives and works in London. Her choreographic work revolves around notions of power dynamics and the politics of the gaze. She bridges dance with ordinary life, highlighting the surreal and absurd aspects of our routines and codes of language.
Eva uses movement and text in her work, and the relationship between these two layers, both hierarchically and aesthetically, is one of the key aspects of her work. Combining movement and text, she creates tight rhythmical structures that function as a score. She plays loosely with the idea of storytelling, probing multiple combinations of these two elements, generating a comedy of the absurd.
Eva has been commissioned work for the stage by Sadler’s Wells, The Place, South East Dance, Festival Santa Susana, EDge, and London Contemporary Dance School, as well as site-specific work by DanceXchange, Bloomberg SPACE, Opera Estate Festival Veneto, and Fundació LaCaixa and Trayectos.
Biography provided by the artist