Recent performance: Sit. Still
As part of Reciprocal Gestures: a season of movement and dance at Chapter, Good News From The Future presented Sit.Still a new work.
Good News From The Future (GNFTF) is dedicated to exploring, developing and presenting eccentric, carefree and collaborative approaches to physical expression: that are suitable – or entirely unsuitable – for our years.
We create witty, moving, demanding, intimate and surprising performances that involve bold, distinctive and idiosyncratic structured improvisation and choreographed rule-based movement.
In a playful style, laced with fizzing humour and driven by a sense of fun, our performers rub shoulders and exchange energies in exuberant combinations of solos, duets and freewheeling group actions, gestures and entanglements: encountering, following, supporting, copying, mirroring, modelling, each other.
Good News From The Future values and celebrates the experience and creative potential of older bodies, and the wisdom and adventurousness of time-travelled heads.
Seizing the time and giving it a good shake!
We are currently developing new work – you can check out our work-in-progress workshops here. If you would like further information please contact us.
Current and Upcoming:
Recent:
What’s the Score?
Sunday 27 November 2022 :: 12.00pm (noon) Chapter Cardiff.
As a distraction from, or alternative to, the events of the World Cup, Mike Pearson’s eccentric company, Good News From the Future, a group of performers over 60, will be putting their best feet forward to a new score from composer Samuel Barnes. You may laugh, you might even weep, but you will definitely be intrigued. For more information: Recent Works
A Walk in the Park
Sunday 29 May 2022 :: 12.00pm (noon) Chapter Cardiff.
Good News from the Future is a physical theatre company for the over-sixties. Created by Mike Pearson in the summer of 2014, after a series of successful workshops, the group has been working together ever since. Since Lockdown, Good News has continued to meet regularly on Sunday mornings, either in Chapter or in Thompson’s Park in Cardiff. Sadly, Mike died on Wednesday May 25 2022, and this short pop-up performance was dedicated to his memory, in grief but with love and gratitude for all he did for us.
Soundtrack: Samuel Barnes.
Sunday Improvisations in Thompson’s Park
Over 2021 and 2022 members of Good News From The Future met on Sunday morning between 10.30 and 11.30 a.m. in Thompson’s Park, Cardiff, to perform improvised works. For more information: Sunday Improvisations
Photos: from top, left to right: © Gordon Plant; Kirsten McTernan; Gordon Plant; Michael Harvey; Kirsten McTernan; Gordon Plant; Kirsten McTernan. Videos: © Gordon Plant; GNFTF.
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