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In his new work Spinner Light, Dresden-based Scottish choreographer Charles Washington explores the mystery of interpersonal relationships and how they can be influenced by colour and the influence of light.

Inspired by Kandinsky’s color theories, he questions how colors, as signals of interpersonal relationships, influence different emotions, what unconscious messages we exchange with each other, how color gives us satisfaction, like tension or other feelings. Spinner Light is a ritual of movement and colour that aims to create a state of harmony among the spectators and to generate a space for humanistic hope rooted in a connection of body and mind and collective interpersonal experiences in uncertain political times.

Pinkmetalpetal Productions is a choreographic platform for contemporary dance under the artistic direction of choreographer and dancer Charles A. Washington. Pinkmetalpetal Productions was founded with the aim of bringing together international artists and reflecting artistically on contemporary realities in a multidisciplinary way.

The Dresden-based choreographer Charles A. Washington completed his dance training at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London. After graduating in 2005, he danced in the UK in pieces by Fleur Darkin, Susie Crow, Will Tucket and Lucy Burge. In the following years he worked in Barcelona with Cesc Gelabert and moved to the Staatstheater Braunschweig under the direction of Jan Pusch in 2012, where he also created his own choreographies. He continues his career as a freelance choreographer in Braunschweig and created the children’s piece “The Spirit Bird” at LOT Theater in 2016 and “Finding Now” in co-production with LOT Theater in 2017. In 2018 he completed the MA Choreography at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz in Dresden and in 2019 he realised the piece M~{Birnam Woods} at the Projekt Theater Dresden.