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Reviews of Shadow of a Quiet Society - spring tour 2016 (14/06/2016)

All manner of young artists have escaped the stultifying confines of their hometowns, only to find an appreciation and sweet nostalgia blossoming once they return from having made their way in the world. Plays, watercolours or novels are the usual outlets but history expressed through dance is a far rarer beast.

Shadow Of A Quiet Society is choreographer and dancer Gwyn Emberton quirky love letter to the Welsh town of his birth that the press release suggests is Montgomery, Powys. Choosing to cast six female dancers, each from a different nation, gave Emberton a rich palette of skills, physiques and experiences to draw on

Read the rest of the review from Wales Arts Review here. 

Whether many audience members at this performance of Gwyn Emberton’s latest ambitious dance work were familiar with Jungian psychoanalysis is, of course, unknown.

But them it should not have been necessary to read the programme notes or delve into this theory of collective unconsciousness because, by definition, if it is valid, we should have recognised, on some level of other, what was occurring before our eyes on the stage,

Much of the work was visually exquisite, movement that taps into Emberton’s experiences now as dancer and choreographer (unconscious or otherwise) and singles him out as a choreographer who is able to excite and stimulate but also entertain with flowing, aesthetically pleasing, accessible dance.

Read the rest of the article on Arts Scene in Wales here. 

Gwyn receives Best Male Dancer/Choreographer for Triptych III at Wales Theatre Awards 2016 (Jan 2016)

Gwyn Emberton Dance selected for British Dance Edition

We are delighted that our solo 'Of the Earth, from where I came' has been selected for British Dance Edition the largest showcase of dance in the UK. It will be the first time our work has been part of  BDE with the solo being performed as part of a triple bill during the four day event to be held in Cardiff and Newport in March 2016. 

Read more about it on Arts Scene in Wales. 

Posted  (November 2015)

Review of Triptych – WMC, Cardiff (July 2015)

http://www.asiw.co.uk/triptych-deoscuro/

When the action moves back to WMC we wait for a while an d then go back into that  same temporary space created in the foyer where we watched the videos. Now the screens have been removed to host the Gwyn Emberton choreography, performed by Emberton and his equally passionate, lithe and powerful dancer Albert Garcia. The two men work together and intertwine, support and manipulate one another as they move through increasingly traumatised movement culminating in silent screams and uncontrollable shaking. This is a very different dance vocabulary than we have seen in other Emberton work in recent months and his partnership with Garcia is mesmerising and mercurial.

http://www.thepublicreviews.com/?p=75430 - 4 Stars

 The evening finishes with Triptych III, a half-hour dance performance expressing the pain and struggle soldiers go through while at war. Gwyn Emberton and Albert Garcia hold the space beautifully, their movements graceful but never entirely in sync (symbolic of war itself, arguably). The piece ends with the two men slowly exiting the stage, glancing at the audience on their way out. Out of sight, out of mind.

Review of Of the Earth, from where I came (Wales Dance Platform)