FLUX

Flux is a fractured narrative, firmly rooted in the Jersey with trials. The piece follows our protagonist from a mythical state of pre-individuated power through to persecution at the hands of her oppressors. It employs a series of anachronistic flourishes to create something impressionistic, non-linear and timeless. Inspired by collected texts and the archetype of the witch, Flux explores the darker side of humanity, the echoes of history and the shadow self, the forbidden, the desired and the instincts and fears that are often relegated to the depths of the unconscious.

Choreography Katya Bourvis

Composition and Sound Design Andrew Morgan

Costumes Katherine Watt

Rehearsal Director Asier Edeso Eguia

With Thanks to Carolyn Rose Ramsey, Benji Knapper, Dominic Rocca, Susan Kempster and Kate Flatt

Flux is an extraordinary piece. Fiercely intelligent, incisive, and ambitious, it takes on the whole vast historiographical sweep of the figure of the witch from her ancient pagan origins through to the witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on to the present day. What I particularly loved as dramaturg was seeing the level of nuance, detail, and meticulous research that Katya brought to her treatment of each of these historical moments - and the way her artistry brought them to searing, visceral new life. Haunting, beautiful, brutal, grotesque, and, in places, darkly funny, Flux came to possess me almost in the way its protagonist possesses some of her playthings. Weeks later, it keeps popping up in me at the most unexpected times. It will live in me for a very long time. (Adam Perchard).