This is an amazing performance by Michael Clark’s Company at the TATE Turbine Hall.

Production title:  th
Choreographer: Michael Clark
Lighting Designer: Charles Atlas
Costumes: Stevie Stewart & Michael Clark
Location: Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
Photographer: Hugo Glendinning

Michael Clark is a Scottish dancer and iconoclastic choreographer, with punk influences, who uses in his work music by Stravinsky, but also by David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. In his choreography, Michael Clarke tries to break down conventions, especially ballet’s refined aesthetics with provocative prosthetics and costumes. Michael Clark has strong links with the art world and he has collaborated with artists like Leigh Bowery and Sarah Lucas.

His commissions include The Paris Opera, Scottish Ballet, London Festival Ballet, Phoenix Dance Company, Deutsche Opera in Berlin and the Edinburgh Festival. In 2005 Michael Clark became an Artistic Associate of the Barbican Centre, London with the Stravinsky Project, a three-year collaboration to produce a trilogy of works to seminal dance scores by Igor Stravinsky. The Stravinsky Project had its US premiere at the Lincoln Center, New York, in June 2008. In 2009, Michael Clark produced a work at the Venice Biennale in 2009.

For the TATE, Michael Clark and his company have been resident in the Turbine Hall for seven weeks, with the development of the piece and rehearsals publicly visible. As well choreographing for the trained dancers, Clark has responded to the unique nature of the Turbine Hall’s public space by inviting 75 non-dancers to join weekly workshops with the company. The group of untrained dancers will perform over the August Bank Holiday weekend.