‘Never Again’ was choreographed by Lloyd Newson and performed by the DV8 Physical Theatre in 1989.

Lloyd Newson first entered the dance profession when he joined the NEW Zealand Ballet in 1979. He then came to Britain in 1980 and studied with the ‘London Contemporary Dance School’ (LDCS) for 1 year. He then joined ‘Extemporary Dance Theatre’ (EDT) where he danced for 5 years. After EDT he began to develop his own style and wanted to follow his ‘personal politics’. He formed DV8 Physical Theatre in 1986 to brake down the barriers between “dance, theatre and personal politics”. He wanted a wider range of audiences so they performed in smaller venues, which also decreased the ticket prices allowing anyone to afford tickets.

The stimulus point for ‘Never Again’ was section 28. It was choreographed as a response to section 28:

“Authorities shall not promote the teaching in any

Maintained schools of the acceptability of homosexuality

As a pretended family relationship.”

Channel 4 commissioned Lloyd Newson to create ‘Never Again�

v Constant contact pressure against body parts.

In section 3- the quartet, the dynamics are again smooth and fluid and move through all levels. They also travel in all different directions. There are many high leg and arm extensions. Roll turns, extended to dive arabesque, isolated foot circles. The link with the theme is the isolated foot circles/rotations, which give the image of paddling.

Section 6 –duets, in this we see the traditional gender role, men lifting lady. The dynamics are very fluid and continuous. They used all levels and used a traverse floor path. There were push movements in retiree, rolls into leg extensions, attitude turns and rolls through all levels. The link with the theme was the push against the wall, which represents the swimming movement ‘push and glide’.

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