Lullaby

Premiere 2003

'Vardimon’s choreography has a compelling power, flicking between humour and horror at switchblade speed'

THE TIMES

Set in a hospital landscape, Lullaby explores our relationship with illness and hospitalisation and the effect it has on those living with it daily.

Combining animation and video with live action, dark humour and original text to create an emotionally charged, multi-layered show.

'Choreography that is dangerous and beautiful, impassioned and remarkable'

DAILY MAIL

'Vardimon is a powerful voice in physical theatre and the daring movements she creates leave scars on the memory'

THE GUARDIAN

CREDITS

Concept, Direction & Choreography

Jasmin Vardimon MBE

Created with & Performed by

Mafalda Deville, Kath Duggan, Gavin Liam Rees, Hofesh Shechter, Jasmin Vardimon MBE

Artistic Advisor, Media and Dramaturgy

Guy Bar-Amotz

Lighting Design

Chahine Yavroyan

Animation

Klega

Costume Design

Deborah Thomas

Soundtrack Design

Ohad Fishof

Set Design

Jasmin Vardimon MBE

Campaign Photography

Tara Moore

Production Photography

Alastair Muir

Promo Video

Guy Bar-Amotz

Length

75 minutes plus one interval

Premiere

2003

Co-produced by

Laban

Commissioned by

Litchfield Garrick and Welsh Independent Dance

Supported by

Esmee Fairbairn and The Place Choreodrome

Funded by

Arts Council England

ARTICLES & REVIEWS

THE TIMES

'Vardimon’s choreography has a compelling power, flicking between humour and horror at switchblade speed'

DAILY MAIL

'Choreography that is dangerous and beautiful, impassioned and remarkable'

THE GUARDIAN

'Vardimon is a powerful voice in physical theatre and the daring movements she creates leave scars on the memory'

LONDONDANCE.COM

'Refreshingly inventive the best physical theatre currently on show'

The Guardian / 7 October 2003

'Her new work, Lullaby, is a darkly disturbing game of doctors and nurses in which she gets out the scalpel and slices away at people’s relationships with illness… Vardimon is a powerful voice in physical theatre, and the daring movements she creates here leave scars on the memory.'

The Times Literary Supplement, TLS / 21 February 2005

'Vardimon in her choreography requires very precise athletic movement; much of the time dancers seems to bent or bending double, and in their duos to be twisting each other round in what in other circumstances would be considered violent. Yet the dancers are athletes, and while they don’t make the moves seem effortless they are never less than graceful and perfectly controlled.'

Londondance.com / April 2003

'The choreography is physically risky, sometimes bruisingly so, and often refreshingly inventive.'

Kultureflash / 10 March 2003

'Politically correct it isn’t, but Vardimon’s dance theatre has a compelling dark-magic realism; magnifying neuroses and transforming familiar social ritual into surreal nightmare. Which is what this genre of contemporary dance does best.'

Mairead Turner

'Jasmin’s work seems to me to be the epitome of contemporary dance. How old-fashioned so much else that goes by that name seems in comparison. It’s one of those works of art that stays with you, that makes you realise that dance can be political and entertaining, and that it can speak about things with a depth and profundity words alone can’t reach.'

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