In your rooms brims with gritty physicality and is at times provocative, political and deeply
personal, presenting a society that is scarily alienating and yet shockingly familiar. Nine dancers reveal shifting motives, lack of control and vulnerabilities through intricate, touching encounters. The work features an original score, created by Shechter in collaboration with Nell Catchpole (The Gogmagogs). Performed live Shechter’s hauntingly beautiful score envelops the stage as the music and dance combine forces to create a truly magical atmosphere.

Credits

Création 2007
Chorégraphie Hofesh Shechter
Interprétation Hofesh Shechter Company

Chorégraphie, musiqueHofesh Shechter interprétation Winifred Burnet-Smith, Chien-Ming Chang, Bruno Karim Guillore, Philip Hulford, Jason Jacobs, Ye-Ji Kim, Elias Lazaridis, Yen-Ching Lin, Sita Ostheimer, Hannah Shepherd, Jermaine Spivey musiciens Chris Allan (violoncelle), Andrew Maddick (alto),
Yaron Engler (percussion), Norman Jankowski (percussion), Lucy Shaw (basse) L'environnement sonore comprend également un extrait du titre Takk... des Sigur Ross, avec leur accord directeur musical Nell Catchpole lumières Lee Curran costumes Elizabeth Barker

In your rooms est une commande de The Place, South- bank Centre et Sadler's Wells avec le soutien de Arts Council England et la collaboration de The Point, East- leigh, Dance South West, Gloucestershire Dance et Take Art Somerset

Réalisation vidéo Charles Picq date du document vidéo 2009 production Maison de la Danse



Durée de l'œuvre 30 minutes

Choreographer Hofesh Shechter OBE is recognised as one of the most  exciting artists making stage work today, renowned for composing  atmospheric musical scores to compliment the unique physicality of his  movement. He is Artistic Director of the UK-based Hofesh Shechter  Company, formed in 2008. The company are resident at Brighton Dome and  Shechter is an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells.

Hofesh Shechter’s repertoire for the company includes Uprising (2006), In your rooms (2007), The Art of Not Looking Back (2009), Political Mother (2010), Political Mother: The Choreographer’s Cut (2011), Sun (2013), barbarians (2015), Grand Finale (2017), SHOW (2018) and POLITICAL MOTHER UNPLUGGED (2020). Grand Finale was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production.

Shechter has also staged and choreographed works on leading  international dance companies including the Alvin Ailey American Dance  Theater, Batsheva Ensemble, Candoco Dance Company, Cedar Lake  Contemporary Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater 1, Paris Opera Ballet,  Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet Flanders.

He has choreographed for theatre, television and opera, notably at the Metropolitan Opera (New York) for Nico Mulhy’s Two Boys, the Royal Court on Motortown and The Arsonists, the National Theatre on Saint Joan and for the Channel 4 series Skins. As part of #HOFEST, a 4 week festival celebrating Shechter’s work across 4 iconic London venues, he co-directed Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice  with John Fulljames at the Royal Opera House. In 2016 he received a  Tony Award nomination for his choreography for the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof.

In 2018 Hofesh Shechter was awarded an honorary OBE for Services to Dance and the company's first dance film, Hofesh Shechter’s Clowns, was broadcast by the BBC in September to great acclaim.

In 2020, Hofesh Shechter Company was named the winner of the Fedora – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet for LIGHT: Bach Dances, in collaboration with Royal Danish Opera and co-directed by Hofesh Shechter and John Fulljames.

Hofesh Shechter’s new creation Double Murder will premiere in 2021.

More information: hofesh.co.uk