TOUCH THE BEAST
Release the Beast
Watch the trailer of multi award-winning Touch the Beast in the Film Archive
The Beast Awakens…
Touch the Beast is a multi award winning dance film and performance which evokes a Gothic world through the lens of the 21st century. Featuring a diverse and charismatic cast, including non-binary dancers, caught in a moment of time.
“ATMOSPHERIC WORLD CREATED-SENSE OF POE’S COMPULSION AND REVULSION WAS VERY STRONG. MORE!”
— Audience Member, Jacksons Lane, London.
Awards
Sensual, strange, unsettling, gender fluid and inspired by the tales of Edgar Allen Poe.
This production takes Poe’s idea that the seeds of our own destruction lie in ourselves: so the ‘Beast’ is our guilt at our sexual orientation, our age, race, gender, looks and past actions. The ‘Beast’ also represents our own genitalia.
Dora Frankel, Livia Massarelli and Giacomo Pini
Location: Dance City, Newcastle
Images Luke Waddington.