Press “(...)Under elaborated light the dancers understand to catch audiences’ attention and drive it again and again to new details of their extremely complex and virtuoso dance act. (...)” ‘Die Welt’, Germany 15th July DanceKiosk-Hamburg 2011 “(...)The dancers transmission internal conflicts in the bitter struggle between two bodies – between the desire in others to open, and the desire for a last bit of freedom. This nightmarish brutal, tender or tender-brutal duel takes your breath away. The two artists from England, the discovery of the evening. (...)” ‘Hamburger Adendblatt’, Germany 15th July 2011 DanceKiosk-Hamburg ‘ ... strikingly original ... Two very committed performers” Lindsey Winship 20th January, Resolution! 2011 “(...)through the abrupt changes on stage these scenes are as exciting as a thriller. But there is even more: this psychological relationship trial is also technically perfect. (...)” hamburgtheater.de, Germany 16th July, DanceKiosk-Hamburg 2011 “... I found myself leaning forward, gripping the edge of my seat, clenching my teeth and trying to disentangle my emotions ... Frugal Feasts subtly tested my tolerance for intimacy, challenged my sense of being a ‘viewer’ and teased me to become a ‘voyeur’... As I left ‘The Place’ that evening I had the most extraordinary...

May the dance’s voice preserves its importance: Festival DanceKiosk presents for the seventh time international artists at the theater Hamburger Sprechwerk “(...) The young choreographer Rachel Birch-Lawson from London, acclaimed guest by DanceKiosk two years before, shows with her Duet “Frugal Feasts” that she has consequently developed and improved her radical physical style. The graceful dancer and her tall partner Khyle Eccles meld in a kind of creature which devours everything. It is a symbiotically fight-dance, brutal, tenderly, eager. In the diversity of its emotions it develops special forms and dynamics. Under elaborated light the dancers understand to catch audiences attention and drive it again and again to new details of their extremely complex and virtuoso dance act. (...)” - Die Welt – 15.07.2011 Two dancers from England take one’s breath away “(...) The issue of death and love provides contrast with the wholehearted symbiotic duo “Frugal Feasts” by Rachel Birch-Lawson and Khyle Eccles. Clamped as in combat or sexual intercourse, they roll over the floor, slide into one another, print, or wear down themselves. Everyone is alternately the victim and perpetrator, until the woman lies lifeless in the arms of the man. The dancers transmission internal conflicts in...

Review of Rachel Birch-Lawson Triple Bill Friday 23rd March, 7.30 pm Chisenhale Dance Space Choreographer, performer and maker Rachel Birch-Lawson presented four very special works within a triple bill at Chisenhale Dance Space this Spring. Opening the nights programme was a new work consisting of two short solos, Small collapses in a confined space and SINK. In this work Rachel, a lone performer shrinks and shudders into turmoil and breaks into sequences of collapsing and then re-establishing. Acting as part of the set, Khyle Eccles (long standing collaborator and performer) lay still in the corner, a constant image that allowed for a very effective beginning. After the technically sustained motions of Rachel’s solo, Eccles then began his personal journey of desires. With a taught physicality and a powerful unforgiving energy, Eccles went from the aggressor to the underdog in swift blissful moments, falling unaided backwards with a compounding effect. Both gave unique representations of ideas including acceptance, giving up and fighting on: in fact these pieces are inspired by the performers’ personal reflections and reactions to their duet Frugal Feasts. The second of the evenings work, undisclosed number was a musical/visual/performance art piece by Jack James (musician/collaborator). As the...

Audience responses for the rest is noise triple bill "I can't express in words how mesmerised I was ... Mind-blowing!! … Work that definitelly has a wow-factor!!" “An amazing piece of art, technical, comical, tragic, interesting, mesmerising, surprising, intricate, well-thought … The choreography was so well-explored, smart, emotional and storytelling.” “Your complicity, intimacy and honesty made this performance gold!” “touching, dangerous, and exciting … a show of true collaboration” Audience Responses for Frugal Feasts “... thought provoking, beautiful work ... you slotted into each other like complimentary jigsaw pieces, [I was] in awe of your movement, I loved the moments that allowed us to forget who was who ... It made me feel so wound in with you both, and beautifully confused about whose legs were whose and where the power to keep going was coming from. And a little claustrophobic, like I was sandwiched between you! ... that you were so completely submerged within each other the whole time drew us in very close ... the piece wasn’t an illustrative look at a relationship, but it wasn’t simply physical manipulation either, and that ambiguity was very intriguing. ... [it was] precisely measured, no matter how abandoned or challenging...

Other press Seven Skins “Arms, hands and legs jerk and twitch like feelers and claws of an insect in the evocative solo Seven Skins by Rachel Birch-Lawson ... [she] explores the search for identity through evolutionary stages of man. The outer world arouses curiosity, instills fear.” - DanceKiosk 09 - Klaus Witzeling Quick, Now, Here, Now, Always “Darkness. A beat. A light. A body. A tremor - then another. Pulsing with the crisp flow of a morse code signal ... Sleek, sullen floorwork summons a cluster of creatures: scuttling on-stage, the dancers scatter across the floor, a pattern of shifting fractals. The stage becomes a petri dish of micro-encounters in Rachel Birch- Lawson's chic study of intercommunication.” - Resolution! 2008 - Kate Larsen Interview with Article 19 Magazine from 2011 Fresh from a recent performance at the 2011 incarnation of the Resolution Festival in London new(ish) dance maker Rachel Lawson tells us about her work, plans for the future and making work for more than just one show. Tell us about your work 'Frugal Feasts' The work we performed was called 'Frugal Feasts', we started working on it in February of 2010, nearly a year ago, and we had...