Eve Stainton — The Joystick and The Reins — live event
Artist and choreographer Eve Stainton makes their Bold Tendencies debut with The Joystick and The Reins (World Premiere), accompanied by Ennio Morricone’s seminal score for The Thing (1982). The Joystick and The Reins explores who is deemed to be, and those who decide what constitutes a ‘threat’ within society; exploring how marginalised groups have been instrumentalised through systems of oppression and authoritarianism. Cycling through hyper-emotional states of intensity, the scene and solo figure become a site for the audience’s own projections. This becomes a choreographic practice of distortion, referencing ideas of power, dominance, perpetrator, victim, threat and interpretation. Influences for The Joystick and The Reins include historical reenactments, police and riot arrest imagery, and 1980s Crime Watch episodes; examining what it means to reconstruct a theatrical scene that draws on truth, and how societal constructs keep people ‘at risk’ of incarceration in a place of vulner
Starts: 2026-08-15T19:30:00Z
Ends: 2026-08-15T21:30:00Z
Where: 95a Rye Lane, England SE15 4ST, United Kingdom
Price: $14.5