Photo of Colin Poole and Simon Ellis by Eulanda Shead Photography
Photo by Eulanda Shead Photography

We are Colin Poole (UK) and Simon Ellis (NZ) – two independent contemporary dance artists whom together form the performance duo Colin, Simon and I. We collaborate artistically in the duet form, and choreograph and perform dance that explores male friendship.

Because We Care is our latest performance project and is about ways of relating: between men, and between audiences and performers.

Man is an excuse for an animal

Première
Friday 8 and Saturday 9 June 2012, 8pm
The Place: Robin Howard Theatre
17 Duke's Rd, London WC1H 9PY
Tickets £15/12
Bookings: theplace.org.uk or 020 7121 1100

Performance and choreography: Colin Poole and Simon Ellis
Lighting design: Jackie Shemesh
Costume: Theo Clinkard
Props: Amy Watson
Choreographic support: Chris Bannerman, Joanne "Bob" Whalley and Lee Miller

Q&A session following performance on 8 June

Research and development blog is at colinsimonandi.com/blog

E-flyer and video trailer available at colinsimonandi.com/news/one_201205.html

Colin and Simon met at a Choreodrome workshop in 2007. Two years later they worked together to develop an initial version of Colin, Simon & I which they showed at Touch Wood in 2009. Early in 2011 they began working together again – both in and out of the studio – to generate new ideas for a project that reflected an increased understanding of their collaborative relationship, and their mutual interest in communication, reflection, risk and adventure.

facebook.com/ColinSimonandI
twitter: @colinsimonandi

Commissioned by The Place
Simon Ellis is a Work Place artist