Rambert presents the world premiere of Note To Self

World renowned Rambert dance company presents Note To Self, a new livestream production created by Rambert’s Artistic Director Benoit Swan Pouffer, performed in real-time from Rambert’s building on London’s Southbank from Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th September.

Theatre Royal Bath audiences - 1 of 13 partner venues for Rambert’s autumn livestream - can enjoy the performance as it happens and is streamed into ticket holders homes. Performances of Note To Self will take place on Thursday 16th September at 3pm and on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th September at 8pm.

Note To Self is the fourth livestreamed dance event to be hosted on the company’s cross-platform web app Rambert Home Studio since the platform’s launch in September 2020. The production - which will be shown via livestream over three live performances - is a made-for-film event and will be performed by dancers from Rambert’s outstanding early career company Rambert2 with 11 handpicked from more than 650 for their exceptional ability, daring and capacity to inspire. Benoit Swan Pouffer’s new piece for Rambert2 is an unexpected and poignant journey through our mind, memory and sense of self.

We build an hour, a day, a lifetime on what we can remember. So what do we become when we forget? Benoit Swan’s new creation is a poignant and unexpected journey of transformation and acceptance. An intimate and, at times, disorienting mix of memories - both reality and invention. Audiences follow Eve’s experiences shifting from the unremarkable to the fantastical and sometimes dark or uncomfortable; the story of any complex individual. Note To Self is a surreal and dreamlike dive into consciousness and memory revealing how powerful, malleable and fragile the human memory can be. 

Benoit Swan Pouffer comments on his new production: “Note To Self is about memory but it is also about resilience and acceptance. When memories are lost or fragmentary, our imaginations step in with constructions that feel just as real as those which were lost. The world is part invention, part reality for Eve and we experience both her external relationship with the world as well as her interior consciousness. I wanted to capture the kind of heightened, fantastical reality that both memory and imagination can conjure and bring this to life.” 

Having now challenged 5 different choreographers to expand the frontiers of real-time performance, Benoit Swan now takes his turn to create for this exciting new medium exploring the opportunities afforded by cinematography. Roaming live, the piece will utilise the different spaces in the Rambert building. As part of his research for the piece, Benoit Swan Pouffer discussed the complexities of the human memory with neuroscientist Crawford Winlove.

Rambert presents Note to Self, livestreamed to audiences online, with performances from Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th September. To book tickets contact the Theatre Royal Bath Box Office on 01225 448844 or book online at www.theatreroyal.org.uk