What does it mean to be human?
What would it mean to be more than human?
Would you like to perform better than ever before: run a mile in half a minute, leap tall buildings in a single bound?
What if technology could make this happen?
Maybe it can……..
In the 21st century anything seems possible. Advances in human enhancement technology, particularly in the world of disability sports, are creating a whole new understanding of the human body and its potential. When athletic excellence meets cutting-edge technology, where will it lead? What will ‘human’ come to mean?
Working in partnership with imove, Chol Theatre and Sheffield Hallam University will bring together some extraordinary local talents to explore these issues in events across the region that will celebrate human movement both as it is and as it has the potential to become.
Sports Lab: The Science behind the Medals
Artist Jason Minsky has been following the Extraordinary Moves team for the past year, drawing on the themes of the project to create three extraordinary artworks. You can see the first of these, Paradigm Shift, in Sheffield at Sports Lab: The Science Behind the Medals - an interactive, family exhibition mixing the latest technological and...
Different Strokes: Extraordinary Swimmers Photographed by Paul Floyd Blake
Different Strokes brings together Paul Floyd Blake’s photographs of three remarkable female swimmers: thirteen year-old Danielle Bailey - a potential Paralympics Champion - swimming at The Hydro in Harrogate; portraits of teenage swimmer Rosie Bankcroft; and images of Jane Grant at Starbeck Baths. This exhibition challenges perceptions of disability and describes the joy that comes from...
LeanerFasterStronger
7.45pm 24 May – 2 June 2012 (no performances on Sundays) Matinees: 2.15pm 31 May & 2.15pm 2 June Public Dress Rehearsal - 23rd May ( Call Box Office: 0114 249 6000) TICKETS ON SALE HERE How far would you go to be the best? What if bio-engineered body parts and medical science were...
Extraordinary Moves: Bodies in Motion
Kaite O’Reilly is the writer of LeanerFasterStronger, a darkly humorous play exploring the themes and issues of the Extraordinary Moves project. Kaite spent some time in the Movement Capture lab and you can read all about it here. ...
Movement Capture
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Dean Ramsden talks about the Extraordinary Pod
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Kiruna Stamell talks about the Extraordinary Pod
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Audience reactions to the Extraordinary Pod
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Gerald Fox talks about the Extraordinary Pod
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Extraordinary Pod – The Highlights!
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Jason Minsky
Cutting-edge research and advances in human enhancement technology are creating a new understanding of the human body and its potential; but when athletic excellence meets cutting-edge technology, where will it lead? What will ‘human’ come to mean? Artist Jason Minsky explores and reflects on these questions through a thought-provoking series of new works, premiered at...
Paul Floyd Blake
Paul has been working with the Extraordinary Moves team to explore and capture the themes of the project. Paul Floyd Blake is a Jamaican-English photographer who started his professional career over a decade ago, after working as a lorry driver and a semi-professional footballer. After graduating with a first class degree, one of Paul’s first...
Jason Minsky
Jason’s art forms part of Extraordinary Moves Jason Minsky was born in London in 1968. He studied 3D Design at Manchester Polytechnic and an MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art. His practice combines performance, photography, installation, design, crafts, events and interventions. The work is sourced from a range of references...
Company Chameleon
Company Chameleon were part of The Night of Extraordinary Moves. Company Chameleon believes in Dance Theatre as a vital method for social change. Their work allows the viewer to experience the art of dance whilst tackling challenging issues in inventive ways that allows the viewer access and inclusion. Through the performance of their work, and...
Kiruna Stamell
Kiruna can change you in Extraordinary ways! Kiruna Stamell was born in Australia, where she studied dance, theatre and film at the University of New South Wales. An audition for extra work in Moulin Rouge! led to Baz Lurhmann creating the role of La Petite Princess especially for her. This kickstarted a career in theatre...
Laura Haughey
Laura’s leading the Motion Capture project as part of Extraordinary Moves. Laura Haughey is a theatre, film and movement director. She has trained as a physiotherapist and with a touring dance company, and this background in both science and performance informs all her work with the actor’s body. Laura describes herself as a Dance Inclusion...
Kaite O’Reilly
Kaite O'Reilly is the writer of LeanerFasterStronger, a darkly humorous play deliberating the key questions raised by Extraordinary Moves. Kaite O’Reilly is an award-winning playwright, having been awarded the Peggy Ramsay Award for YARD, the Manchester Evening News Best Play of 2004 for Perfect, the 2009 International Susan Smith Blackburn Award for The Almond and...
Dr David James
David is the brains behind Extraordinary Moves. David James is a senior lecturer in sports engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, leading the university’s MSc in the subject. David has a background in mechanical engineering and his PhD focussed on modelling the complex bounce of a cricket ball. His current work concentrates on the historical impact...
Andrew Loretto
Andrew is helping bring LeanerFasterStronger to the stage Andrew Loretto is Creative Producer for Sheffield Theatres – the largest producing theatre complex outside of London. Andrew is responsible for leading an ambitious programme of theatre projects that empower and engage local people, communities and artists with all aspects of the Crucible, Lyceum and Studio’s work....
Chol Theatre
Chol are one of the partners of Extraordinary Moves Chol Theatre strives to explore new and inventive ways of engaging people with the performing arts, to reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary. This often means putting on public exhibitions, performances and events in surprising locations. Chol is a leader in making theatre that is both...
