HAND IN GLOVE PERFORMANCE COMPANY

Hand in Glove produce workshops that explore a distinctly visual and sonic method of devising performance, and create productions in which collaboration and inter-disciplinary practices are paramount. Actions, sound, props and costume are all aspects of the design and making process in which the company work together with workshop participants to create a production.

 

After their formation in 2009 at the University of Gloucestershire by artist and musician Jim Brook, Hand in Glove went on to create successful theatre productions and street performances in Cheltenham, London, and Stroud where the company are now based.

 

Hand in Glove's performances are underpinned by structures based on transitions and choreography derived from improvisations and devising processes  in relation to visual and sonic stimuli. This fertile ground for artistic development rests on an idiosyncratic and playful approach to inventing these structures as much as responding to them: back-stories, fragments of dialogue, set elements, lighting, props and costume establish the structures through which gestures, motion and choreography emerge. Procedures offer up a circular logic in which newly found images, forms and correspondences give birth to subsequent material and an ongoing discovery of structure.