Institute is a visually captivating, emotionally driven performance, which openly invites its audience to consider what it means to care.

 

 

Gecko has a reputation for generating unique worlds, exquisite stagecraft and breath-taking choreography. Institute uses movement, imagery and a range of choreographic styles to further explore the complexity of human behavior. As well as being visually captivating, Institute is extremely intimate and often very funny. An incisive dissection of the way we nurture and care for ourselves and each other.

 

Amit Lahav asked the company, what does it mean to care for one another in a busy world of high-pressure targets and expectations? What does it mean to lose everything and everyone? Where do you turn?

Four male performers, portray four very familiar human beings, each driven by a desire to care and be cared for…

 

In Autumn 2016 Gecko developed a series of events and resources to allow audiences to further explore issues of mental well-being raised in Institute. We teamed up with Suffolk Mind as the lead partner on the project and also worked with local mental health networks in each city that Institute toured to; Manchester, Southampton and Liverpool. The project was supported by a Wellcome Trust Award.

 

- Sarah Hemming

- Holly Williams

"It is many years since I have seen anything like this quality of movement, imagination and theatricality."

- Jill Sykes

- Joshua Clarke

 

 

Creative Team
Created by Amit Lahav
Producer: Rosalind Wynn

Performers: Chris Evans / Amit Lahav / Ryen Perkins‐Gangnes / François Testory

 

About Gecko
Gecko is an award-winning and internationally-acclaimed physical theatre company, led by Artistic Director Amit Lahav.

 

A Gecko show is visual, visceral, ambitious theatre crafted to inspire, move and entertain. Gecko strives to make their work wide open to interpretation and put their audience at the heart of the narrative. Amit has created an organic devising process that oscillates between intense periods of experimentation, making brave leaps, learning and failing and including choreography, writing, storyboarding and reflection. Every stage includes sonic and technical development alongside the choreography.

 

With an expanding ensemble of international performers and makers, Gecko works across diverse age groups, nationalities and forms. The company tours nationally and internationally and continues to develop strong partnerships around the world.