MASS

concept + direction
Robert Clark

set + costume
KASPERSOPHIE

lighting design
Guy Hoare

music
Jules Maxwell

dramaturg
Lou Cope

producer
Vasanthi Argouin

costume makers
Sophie Donaldson, Frances Morris, Sara Rowlands, Olivia Weltz + Melanie Woolven

Premiere
23 + 24 March 2018

Building 17, Royal Arsenal, Duke of Wellington Ave, Woolwich, SE19 6ST

Created with and performed by
Iris Chan, Kip Johnson, Samuel Kennedy, Janina Rajakangas + Petra Sӧӧr
extended local cast
Frances Gibbons, Joanna Mitchell, Milda Rakauskaite, Akshay Sharma + Ruth Valensi

Performances

21 + 22 November 2018
Zagreb Dance Center, Croatia

performed by 
Ema Crnić, Silvija Dogan, Zvonimir Kvesić, Martina Tomić, Una Vizek, Eleonora Magdalena Vrdoljak
music arrangement Ana Horvat
lighting design Marino Franco
Production by Koreokroj and ZPC

12 November 2019
Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham GU9 7QR

performed by
Iris Chan, Kip Johnson, Petra Söör, Akshay Sharma, Ruth Valensi, Joanna Mitchell

extended local cast
Mary Branson, J M J Boyden, Kylan Casey, Hannah Chinn, Lucy Pihan, Donna Makins

MASS is an experiential antidote to our pervasive fears towards difference and otherness,exploring relationships between our senses, perception, and with belief, as individuals and as a society. It is a response to our current urban environment and societal trends to disengage and disconnect from the world and others around us. An immersive journey through a state of knowing and un-knowing, MASS explores ideas of connection, separation, judgement and expectation.

MASS can be presented as either a full evening experience, 1hr 15 minutes in length, or as a shorter 40 minute experience that loops, developed for festivals and other contexts.

MASS is currently available for touring.  For bookings, please contact:
info@robert-clark.org.uk

trailers

an intense and intimate performance

Luke Jennings
The Guardian

I found myself moved almost to tears by the sense of social immersion and inclusivity Clarks ground-breaking work created. It was, to say the least, uplifting.

hedintheclouds.blog

Its like nothing youll have seen before. Emotional, challenging, inspiring, amazing!

Greenwich Visitor

Uncertainty, joy, curiosity and connection. A brave, thoughtful, truly unique, experiential piece, that enabled the audience’ to create their own event. Fascinating, thank you.

Utterly beautiful evening shared with fellow human beings… Mesmerising, evocative; familiar and unfamiliar all at once. I’ve never experienced anything like it – thank you!

downloads

(please contact info@robertclark.com for passwords)

supported by

MASS is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. A 2017 Compass Commission from the Greenwich Dance & Trinity Laban Partnership, co-produced by Greenwich Dance; commissioned by The Place, and supported by Dance4, DanceEast, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, Trestle Arts Base, and via the South East Dance and Jerwood Charitable Foundation Dramaturg in Residence programme.

Photography © Camilla Greenwell