A site-specific performance for railway stations
Trainstation was a ground-breaking and highly innovative site-specific work that became an international touring success after its premiere in London in 1998. The project is conceived for railway stations and investigates the social environment and human relations within a distinctive public space, exhibiting characteristics that can nonetheless be found across cultures around the globe.
A seminal piece for the company forging new ideas about performance in public spaces, the piece toured nationally and internationally from 1998-2004 to mainline railway stations across the UK and capital cities in Europe, including Madrid, Helsinki, Prague, Budapest, Zurich, London, Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle and Munich.
Co-commissioned by the South Bank Centre and The Place Theatre and funded by London Arts Board’s Creative Developments in Dance Award.
Photo: Mattias Ek
Photo: Mattias Ek
“...exerted a mesmerising pull on passers-by.”
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“A show that had passengers scratching their heads in amazement…”
Photo: E.O.Thomas
Photo: Mattias Ek
Photo: Liz Johnson Artur
“...creating the kind of connection between fact and fiction that’s impossible to achieve in a theatre.”
“The success of seven sisters group is perhaps very much dependent on their great skill of conjuring up performative situations in places where they are least expected, reinvesting theatre with a sense of ‘realness’ often lacking in the clearly defined fictional framework of a visit to the theatre. Responsible for this immediacy, is Thomas’ astute sensitivity towards integrating the spectator’s consciousness and reactivity into the choreographic process.”