Winner of the Audience Prize 25.04.13
Winner of the Audience Prize 23.04.13
Winner of the Audience Prize 17.04.13
LATEST REVIEWS on The Wishing Well at the Place Prize 2013 Finals
The Observer
"Eva Recacha's The Wishing Well is a solo for Martha Pasakopoulou, in which the dancer evokes the fleeting dreams, hopes and prayers of a child. Many of the movements are inchoate, dissolving almost as soon as grasped; there are repetitive tics, sternly and frowningly addressed, and sudden whims, expressed in breezily formless rushes of activity. What Recacha shows us, with precision and the lightest of touches, is that for a child, thought, word and action are one, indivisible."
28 April 2013 by Luke Jennings
The Stage
"A hot contender for the top vote must have been Eva Recacha’s Wishing Well, perhaps the most successful piece of the evening in terms of choreography, character, structure and clarity. Recacha has noticeably put the audience rather than her own intentions first, and has made a piece for them, which allows them into the work and takes them on a journey. The solo work performed by the captivating, open-faced and gorgeous Martha Pasakopoulou is sharp and well formed. She sings, plays jump rope, skips, hops and balances, traversing the space with a child-like guise, sweet, smiley and bouncy-light. We witness the transformation of her character through times tables to the tempestuous teen years, angrily pounding her fists in the air, forming strong opinion, and swaying sensually to the Macarena song. The process from a childish desire to make wishes to a more thorough understanding of the world, but still keeping the need to dream alive, is simple, enchanting, clear and well conceived."
19 April 2013 by
"Place Prize 2013 final was best of contemporary dance"
"The standout performer of the night was Martha Pasakopoulou, dancing previous finalist Eva Recacha’s The Wishing Well."
19 April 2013 by Keith Watson
Telegraph
"Essentially a fragmented, lively musing on the language, nature and preoccupations of childhood – with more than a dash of Burrows and Fargion-style wordplay – it has an infectiously sunny spring in its step, and yet builds to a surprisingly bittersweet close. Plenty of promise there."
20 April 2013 by Mark Monahan
INSIDE DANCE TV Place Prize Special
PLACE PRIZE Shows 17-27th April 2013
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PLACE PRIZE Interview
The Wishing Well goes to the Finals of the Place Prize
From sixteen semi-finalists, four choreographers now compete to win the most prestigious prize in British dance - The Place Prize sponsored by Bloomberg.
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| Martha Pasakopoulou in The Wishing Well by Eva Recacha |
- Eva Recacha
- h2dance
- Riccardo Buscarini
- Rick Nodine
Performing to win the coveted prize, the four Place Prize Finalists will return to the Robin Howard Dance Theatre to perform their commissions and face the audience vote and judges in the final stage of the competition.
Each night, the audience will vote for their favourite performance who will win £1,000.
Our panel of esteemed judges will announce the overall winner, who will win the £25,000 prize, after the final performance onSat 27 April 2013.
(Retrieved from www.theplace.org.uk)
(Retrieved from www.theplace.org.uk)
Eva Recacha in theatreVOICE
In the third part of our series on the Place Prize, choreographer and Place Prize finalist Eva Recacha speaks to Diana Damian about her piece The Wishing Well, inhabiting memories real and imagined, and how chemistry can inform dance. The piece is competing in this year’s Place Prize Finals, which was at The Place, Robin Howard Dance Theatre, from 6-22nd September. Recorded at The Place, 22 August 2012.
I wanted to bring something from my history and culture into the piece, and found this concept of the constant need of a third party intriguing.
Eva Recacha Featured by ACE
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