REPERTOIRE

2024, DYSMORPHIA [Reimagination]

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Choreography: Emma Skyum
Cast: Chiara Halter, Ellen Wilkinson, Harri Eiffert, Isaac Glenister, Lily Armah, Ruby Abbas, Samuel Parry, Sarah Baugstø, Tameka Cunliffe, Thomas Paynter
St. Cuthbert's Church, United Kingdom

"To the sentimentality of the past and the future of self-development"
Emma Skyum, 2024

"Emma Skyum appeared like a hymn that blew our minds into a world of escape.
Starting dramatically, the dancers moved as if they had just come alive from an ancient poem. Dance movements that are graceful and sophisticated liberate the body. Here, there is a strong desire for love and life"
Gerin Nguyen, 2024

2024, LEUCA

Choreography: Emma Skyum
Cast: Emma Skyum
Sound: Milen Apostolov
The Place, United Kingdom

"Dedicated to the passing of time, self-realisation, and acceptance,
LEUCA is a reflective and introspective choreographic solo work about queer discovery"
Emma Skyum, 2024

"A throbbing soundtrack and a haze filled stage. Pulled between the looming presence of two photographic lamps Emma Skyum approaches their brightness with a curiosity that turns to repulsion on drawing too close. Her physical language embodies that shift - sometimes posed and presented, asking to be seen; sometimes angular and inverted as if dipping back into herself"
Rachel Elderkin, 2024

"An articulate body, nude costuming, a figure on display. Powerful bright lights leave nowhere to hide. Emma Skyum’s LEUCA juggled sculptural moments, a clear movement language and a high-paced soundscape that kept the intensity of its atmosphere at a constant high. Built on a choreographic style that echoes Graham and Gaga, stillness was as powerful a tool as the shapes performed, a successful exploration of the minimalism behind the work"
Sara Silva, 2024

"With LEUCA, dance artist Emma Skyum gives a unique performance that exists along a linear narrative between two counterparts, each with their own allure and intrigue. Obsessively drawn between two lights like a moth, the dancer discovers and inhabits characteristics from each that both attract and repel. Along with an arresting portrayal of gender conflict within the mind and body, Emma Skyum's stripped back performance combines the language of Gaga with her own unique style of movement. The atmosphere on stage feels both freeing and suffocating. A space where even the light in the darkness holds no reassurance, where the innocence of the ingénue is constantly found and then lost within the walls of a perpetual psychological conflict. With a raw intensity echoing the choreographic work of Boris Charmatz and Damien Jalet, Emma Skyum creates a beautiful, tormented performance that presents the audience with a deeply intimate human struggle. A heart worn on a sleeve"
Noel Shelley, 2024

2023, SUJAMIT

Choreography: Emma Skyum
Cast: Ellen Wilkinson, Isaac Glenister, Timothy James Firmin, Ruby Abbas
Rose Theatre, United Kingdom

"For Sujamit"
Emma Skyum, 2023

2022, DYSMORPHIA

Choreography: Emma Skyum
Cast: Ada Hossfeld, Colette Rheude, Emma Skyum, Isabel Farr, Maira Renee, Omar Torrico Real, Talia Dagan
Zichri Theatre, Israel

"To the sentimentality of the past and the future of self-development"
Emma Skyum, 2022