SJD SHORTS: Contagion

Created exclusively for our online audience, SJD SHORTS presents specially chosen excerpts from our rich catalogue, each one personally introduced by Shobana. Join us for the final episode featuring Contagion on Monday 17 August at 7pm (UK).

★★★★★ “Vivid, moving and stunningly stylised” The Times

Created in 2018, Contagion commemorates the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 which killed more people than the First World War itself. Inspired by the nature and spread of the unseen flu virus, the work has become unexpectedly relevant to the world we find ourselves in today.

Shobana will chat with Guardian Dance Writer Sanjoy Roy about the work, and answer your questions online.

★★★★ “A moving act of remembrance” Evening Standard

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★★★★★

Vivid, moving and stunningly stylised

The Times

★★★★

A moving act of remembrance

Evening Standard

Creative Team

Shobana Jeyasingh / Concept, Choreography & Direction Merle Hensel / Set & Costume Design Yaron Abulafia / Lighting Designer Nina Dunn / Video Design Graeme Miller / Composer

Dancers

Avatara Ayuso Catarina Carvalho Vania Doutel Vaz Sunbee Han Rachel Maybank Estela Merlos Emily Pottage Ruth Voon

Credits

Contagion is co-commissioned by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary, with support from the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund, and from the Department for Culture Media and Sport.

Supported by The Deborah Loeb Brice Donor Advised Fund at CAF, Garcia Family Foundation, Dr Michael and Anna Brynberg Charitable Foundation, The Mila Charitable Organisation, Oak Foundation, Wellcome and our Creative Circle supporters.

SJD SHORTS: Contagion

Creative Team

Dancers

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