Our current work is taking us on a new journey, where we have been working with reputable and inspiring choreographers to create a new production entitled ‘Arrival’. Influx has been working with: Yael Flexer and Bawren Tavaziva to create a piece based on their cultural identity. Company director Joanne Willmott has also choreographed a piece (while working closely with the renowned Siobhan Davies in a mentorship capacity). What is particularly exciting about this new production is that it references each choreographer’s personal culture and identity; Yael Flexer (Israeli); Bawren Tavaziva (Zimbabwean), and Joanne Willmott is from Somerset with Indian Heritage.

This triple bill offers a variety of unique ‘takes’ on the theme of journeys. Yael Flexer has created a piece which touches on the company’s theatrical personality before dehumanising the cast in a blaze of verve and technical poignancy juxtaposed against moments of defeat and unrest.

Bawren Tavaziva’s piece works in beautiful contrast. He reveals a touching insight into tacit struggles felt by women who are trying to ‘make sense of’ and ‘order’ their lives in everyday Africa. Inspired by myth and legend Joanne Willmott’s new work portrays the strength of women both feminine and brutal in an emotive piece which is
"lyrical and elegaic in style and performed with a crystal like clarity" (Chris Fogg Take Art: Dance)

This triple bill has been hugely influential in the experience of the company and in their professional development, and this process has given Influx a new edge that is continually expanding. Influx will be shortly embarking on a tour of ‘Arrival’ across the south west region.

Photography by Mark Pepperall

July 2008 - A one month residency in Gambia. Twenty-five artist/students from around the world will come together to study for a three-credit/certificate in West African Performing Arts. The programme is run through the UTG to explore and train in the origins of West African dance, rhythm and story telling, and contemporary African popular entertainment, such as circus skills and masked dancing in the West African context.
Site Specific Theatre
Previous performances of work have taken place at Resolution! (London), the Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Regal Theatre (Minehead), The Ariel Centre (Totnes), The Merlin Theatre (Frome), Fitij festival (Santarem, Portugal).

Since 2001 the company has created: