Detective Work is a new duet, choreographed by Seke Chimutengwende in collaboration with Stephanie McMann, which explores choreography as a process of creating and solving mysteries. 

 

The performance is a web of fragmented scenes and dances that occur and reoccur in ever-changing permutations. Working in counterpoint to one another, the performers come at the material from every angle, rearranging the evidence in different configurations.

 

Detective Work channels the relationship between mystery and multiplicity - the sense that there are many possible outcomes to any single process. Shifting between the absurd, the melancholic and the uncanny, the show invites us into a place of constant questioning that ultimately feels hopeful.

 

In this moment of great uncertainty, Detective Work looks to mystery as an antidote to despair. 

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Choreography: Seke Chimutengwende, in collaboration with Stephanie McMann

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Performance: Seke Chimutengwende & Stephanie McMann

 

Lighting Designer: Jackie Shemesh

 

Costume Designer: Annie Pender

 

Composer: Jamie McCarthy

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Rehearsal Director: Helena Webb

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Dramaturg: Charlie Ashwell

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Trailer: Eleanor Sikorski

 

Commissioned by NEUROLIVE

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Performances 

 

11th - 13th November 2021, Siobhan Davies Studios

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Screenings

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Film screenings of Detective Work at Goldsmiths, with neuroscience study​, 25th & 26th April 2022, 2pm - 6pm, Goldsmiths cinema 

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Film screening of Detective Work - a follow up study - at Siobhan Davies Studios

17th November 2024, 1pm - 3:30pm - link

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Photos by Hugo Glendinning