70/30 Split
Two Do: A Performance
Part of Works Ahead 2013 — booking details + information
In Brief
We are two women, with two of everything; two people, two bodies, two voices, two minds, two ways, two paths, two loves, two gains, two unrelated stories, two alternatives, two gether.
A new satirical dance theatre work which investigates performance in differing contexts, the work sits peering over edges and meeting between the gaps of standard performance structures.
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70/30 Split strives to produce work which looks at and questions the female body in performance, forming a creative process which enquirers and seeks to question the gaze and autobiography within a live performance context. Creating satirically energetic dance theatre work, as a pair they utilize movement, text, honesty and leotards, combining burlesque bodies and the bizarre.
Who are they?
70/30 Split are Sophie Unwin and Lydia Cottrell, two York-based choreographers. After studying together at York St John University, they found themselves inspired and informed by each other’s artistic approach to performance making; both were invited back to their university to create a new work for the Create 12 Festival — the result of this process was their current and ongoing collaboration: 70/30 Split, a female performance duo. Together they present an accumulation of words, thoughts, characters, expectations, stories, experiences and alternatives.
Their recent work Content part 1: (2012) has been performed to audiences both regionally and nationally including: Leeds Light Night, Heads up! at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Resolution! at The Place, London receiving encouraging responses from audiences as well as dance critics.
What people have said about them?
Keep an eye out for the delectably cheeky, York based post-modernists Sophie Unwin and Lydia Cottrell, aka 70/30 Split, whose Content Part 1 was a complete giggle.
Donald Hutera, Dance Europe.
Cottrell and Unwin are whizzes in entertainment
Maddy Morgan, Resolution! Review.
Catch this razor sharp pair while you can
Pete Wise, One&Other Magazine.