Idle Motion - Shooting with Lights

Published on Jul 10, 2015

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: September 8-12, 2015

Venue: Multi-functional Theatre of NCPA

Prices: 180, 240, 300

Features: Idle Motion are a young company with big ideas and a huge passion for creating exciting, beautiful new work. From September 8th-12nd, Idle Motion will presents Shooting with Lights at Multi-functional Theatre of NCPA.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

If your pictures are not good enough. you are not close enough.
'A poetic and visual feast...deeply powerful... a true ensemble piece' -- The Stage

Since the invention of photography we have collectively taken over 3.5 trillion photographs. Total Theatre Award nominated Idle Motion search within these snapshots to expose one of the most remarkable untold stories of our age.

It is 1933 and a young German refugee flees to Paris, reinventing herself as Gerda Taro. Discovering the wonder of photography, she falls in love with a fellow refugee who teaches her, ‘if your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough’. Together they venture to the Spanish Civil War and capture the tyranny of fascism. As pioneers of frontline photo journalism, he would go on to receive international recognition as the iconic war photographer Robert Capa - she would be forgotten.

Using innovative staging, physicality and multimedia, internationally renowned company Idle Motion piece together the life of an exceptional woman, glimpsed through the lost photographs she risked her life to take.

About Idle Motion
Idle Motion create highly visual theatre that places human stories at the heart of their work. Integrating creative and playful stagecraft with innovative video projection and beautiful physicality, their productions are humorous, evocative and sensitive pieces of theatre which leave a lasting impression on their audiences.

From small beginnings, having met at school, Idle Motion have grown rapidly as a company over the last six years, producing five shows as an ensemble that have toured extensively both nationally and internationally to critical acclaim.