Featuring spoken text and a unique detailed physicality, ShowReal is a humorous, witty and clever work, based on an exploration of our understanding of films and cinema culture. Structured as a choreographed game, the work invites the audience to witness the unfolding of a performative puzzle. In a playful and engaging way, it tells overlapping stories through filmic moments, it builds on new cinematic plots and scenarios, and comments on celebrity culture as it appears in Oscar-award ceremonies.

Concept/Choreography: Efrosini Protopapa in collaboration with the performers
Performers: Pano Masti, Susanne Mayer, Hester Montgomery-Campbell, Jarkko Partanen/Marc Dodi, Giorgos Pispinis, Elena Prapidi, Susanna Recchia
Dramaturgical advice: Michael Pinchbeck
Texts by: Pano Masti, Hester Montgomery-Campbell, Michael Pinchbeck, Danae Theodoridou, in collaboration with the group

Co-commissioned by Dance4 and Laban, with the support of Arts Council England, and The Place through Choreodrome.

To be presented at:

• The Place, London, 29 September 2009, as part of ‘Touch Wood’
• The Showroom, University of Chichester, 1 October 2009, as part of ‘Formations’
• Laban Theatre, London, 14 and 15 October 2009
• The Michaelis Theatre, Roehampton University, London, 21 October 2009, as part of ‘Dance Diary’
• Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside, University of Nottingham, 25 October 2009, as part of ‘nottdance09’, organised by Dance4

Audiences’ feedback from the Sharing at Dance4, Nottingham, August 2009
‘Thrilling, thought-provoking, engaging’.
‘Gave me a real sense of play’.
‘Made my eyes work’.