Moving with the Trouble

How long does mourning last?

How long are the dead allowed to haunt us?

Photo: Camilla Greenwell Dancers: Aneta Zwierzyńska & Takeshi Matsumoto

Moving with the Trouble (22mins 50secs) is an award winning dance film that addresses themes of dispossession, loss, vulnerability, othering and care that chime with the global pandemic.

Developed from the legacy of I’ve Lost You Only To Discover That I Have Gone Missing and the testimonies of people affected by young onset dementia, this new dance film — supported by Surrey Arts and Dance 21 — confronts our dispossessions. It explores how we touch the alterity within, the dark matter, and invites audiences to move with us as we move with the trouble. Filmed on location at the Chilworth Gunpowder Mills deep in the Surrey Hills at the end of the third UK National lockdown, the film, and the feminist research that informs it, is a site-responsive work that grasps the social, political, and environmental inequalities of loss, voice, intimacy, vulnerability, destruction and care. In doing so, Moving with the Trouble tunes our attention to micro-activisms present in movement exchange as we show up to collective understandings of the re-territorialization of power and privilege in more-than-human ways. The film has been screened in dance/arts, public health and environmental justice forums. It is currently touring international film festivals and is available for remote and on-site screening.

Photo: Camilla Greenwell Dancer: Rudzani Moleya

Photo: Camilla Greenwell Dancer: Maria Palliani

Production Team

Choreography & Direction

Beatrice Allegranti

Creative Producer

Neil Max Emmanuel

Cast

Aneta Zwierzynska, Maria Palliani, Rudzani Moleya, Takeshi Matsumoto, Luke Birch

Original Soundscore

Robert Howat

Text

Beatrice Allegranti

Dramaturgy

Stella Duffy

Costume Design

Marco Tripoli

Photography

Camilla Greenwell

Cinematographer

Alice Hiscoke

Cameras

Geoff Halstall

Jack Baker

Drone

Mathew Youngs

Editor

Alexander Lopera

Company Producer

Nancy May Roberts

Commissioners & Partners

Arts Council England, Surrey Arts, Dance21, Camberley Theatre, Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre, Alexandra Palace, Dementia Action Alliance, Merton Arts Space, Dementia Pathdfinders; University of Roehampton.