Projects

Five years ago the last of the world’s ice disappeared. A year after that the sport of ice dancing went with it. Tonight, Heap Krusiak and Pebble Adverati, the greatest ice dance pair the world has ever known, will attempt to bring back what the world took away, by performing their free dance on a stage with no ice.

6.0 is a beautiful and hilarious new play about loss, sport and what happens when our environment can no longer provide us with what we need. We are interested by the immediacy of the performers’ need for ice and the inability of the room, the theatre, they are in to provide it at that moment. How can the ‘show go on’ and what might this say about the environment on a bigger scale and of people’s ability to adapt, to create, to continue? It is about sport and how, like art, sport is the answer to a human impulse, a need to pursue perfection, truth and beauty. 6.0 is a climate change parable for our times, that holds the sportsman up as someone who does not accept defeat, who continues in the face of adversity, who pushes through boundaries, even when their sport has melted into spring.

6.0 premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe 2009 and has since toured extensively in the UK.