Bert and Nasi
Recent recipients of the Forced Entertainment award in the UK, Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas have developed a strong reputation worldwide for making bold, original performance that sits somewhere between live art, dance and theatre, but if you held them against a wall they’d probably say it’s theatre.
Bert and Nasi’s stripped back, award-winning style is both hilariously funny and unrelentingly brutal. They play out big ideas on a personal level to expose the ridiculous, poignant and contradictory nature of the world we live in.
Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas are produced by Farnham Maltings and are Associate Artists with MAYK.
www.bertandnasi.com
The End
The End, In collaboration with Laura Dannequin. In this new dance piece, two parallel narratives run alongside each other: the end of the Earth and the end of Bert and Nasi’s collaboration. Their dance is a poignant and funny celebration of our own mortality, and that of everything around us.
Format: Live in person or digital adaptation
Photo by Richard Perryman
Hello
Combining snippets of real phone conversations with pictures, texts and music, Hello is a cross between a video diary and a series of postcards sent between two friends. It is a rumination on creativity, melancholia and what it takes to maintain connection at distance.
Every day for seven days you will receive text messages from Bert & Nasi with links to different short films. All the films will be available until the end of the week, then once they're gone, they're gone.
Format: Digital film - Delivered by SMS or Whatsapp
Palmyra
Palmyra is an exploration of revenge, the politics of destruction and what we consider to be barbaric, inviting people to step back from the news and look at what lies beneath, and beyond, civilization.
Format: Live in person
Photo by Alex Brenner
One
Considering the polarisation of politics today, One begins amid the ruins of unresolved conflict. Uniquely blending humour, brutality and clowning, acclaimed performers Bert and Nasi attempt to overcome what divides them in this surreal show for our surreal times.
Format: Live in person
Photo by The Other Richard
Eurohouse
Two performers - one Greek, one French - dance and shout, cry and sing, agree and disagree, about life in the Eurohouse. Made in transit between Greece and the UK, Eurohouse brings this difficult relationship to life through a darkly comic look at the EU’s founding ideals, and what got lost along the way.
* Palmyra, One and Eurohouse are part of a trilogy and can be presented alongside each other or be seen individually.
Format: Live in person
Photo by Jack Offord