The performance:
How, why, where, when and who we find ourselves synchronizing with can be a mystery; our compulsion to duet our way through life, a life-long fascination.
Fluid and vibrant, ‘Two Peas without a Pod’ explores the essence of partnership and the dynamics of co–dependency and competitiveness.
Audiences are taken on an indulgent trip to discover the make-up and contradictions of human connections, observing the draw of coupling, how society’s structures stem from this principle and how varying and fascinating these partnerships can be. The absurd and the familiar are married together with set and flamboyant costume in this fantastical cocoon of colourful activity.
Award-winning Levantes Dance Theatre consists of innovative practitioners Bethanie Harrison and Eleni Edipidi who combine contemporary dance theatre practices with visual and live art. Familiar mechanics of pedestrian routine are regularly woven into choreography to develop penetrable, peculiar and often humorous landscapes.

The workshop:
Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 June 2011
14.00-18.00
The aim for L.D.T. when working in education, is to highlight the creative tool (our body) we each possess; its individual character and ability to communicate. We work collectively with pupils either devising a piece, or simply workshopping ideas. We feel it is important their creativity is utilised and so avoid prescribing style, or teaching excessive repertoire.
The workshops are always fun, energetic and colourful. We avoid a canvas of shape and style and instead celebrate the individual and their uniqueness. We encourage mind and body to be engaged equally in the equation and welcome the inclusion of other disciplines (art, theatre, music) throughout the process.
fee 50 euros
Tickets : 15 euros , 10 euros (students)

Few words about the Company :
Levantes Dance Theatre consists of key practitioners Bethanie Harrison and Eleni Edipidi. The company works primarily with Dance Theatre, with a constant enthusiasm for fusing artistic disciplines and indulging in vibrant aesthetics.
The work is current, bold and honest. Intrigued by the draw of obscurity, the crux of work visually explores contradictions, blending and sinking into equal measures of the mundane and divine. Both the absurd and familiar are married together with set and costume, which in turn, are inhabited, developed, eaten, destroyed, worn, applicated and distributed within process.

We have a kitsch admiration for routine and value the body’s capacity to communicate in its most basic form. We wrap our audience in a cocoon of colourful activity striving to cushion their acceptance of an oddness, which in time melts into a viable element of the landscape.
‘[They] use dance as a simple yet enlightening method of communication.’
Metro on Gin & Satsumas

LDT are recipient of
2011 – Representatives of new UK emerging dance artists (DancEUnion), Southbank Centre – London
2011 – Method Lab Commission, greenroom
2010 – Bonnie Bird New Uk Choreography Award (B. Harrison)
2009 – The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award
2009 – Marion Mentoring Scheme Award (E. Edipidi)
2008 – Stamping Ground, Dance4
2008 – Rules and Regs

Eleni Edipidi
Co artistic director of LDT/choreographer/performer
Originally from Greece, Eleni trained at Laban and gained a MA in European Dance Theatre Practice (2005) and has a BA in Dance and Live Art Practices (2004, MMU). Eleni is a freelance performer and choreographer. She has performed and toured internationally with the Belgian based company Victoria with the work "For All The Wrong Reasons" by Lies Pauwels. She has also danced for Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Digitalis Dance Company, Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company and has performed in the Opening Ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games amongst others.
Eleni is the recipient of The Marion North Mentoring Scheme 2009 and worked with dance aerialist artist Lindsey Butcher as her mentor.

Bethanie Harrison
Co artistic director of LDT/choreographer/performer
Bethanie has a BA in Dance and Visual Art (2004, MMU). Since 2004, Bethanie has co directed LDT and created work as a choreographer and performer for their productions. Bethanie has collaborated with art practitioners Andre Gingras and Anna Macdonald and has lead workshops in schools in the Northwest with “Charged 2 dance”. Bethanie is the recipient of The Bonnie Bird New Uk Choreography Award 2010.

“With a kitsch aesthetic and kooky costumes ,... [they] create a space where a world of play is superimposed on the ordinary and everyday.”
Tina Jackson
Metro 2009 on Room Temperature Romance

"[They] use dance as a simple yet enlightening method of communication."
Metro (Manchester) 2008 on Gin & Satsumas

"This show is definitely a must!”
London Dance 2009 on Room Temperature Romance Critic’s Choice
Time Out 2009 on Room Temperature Romance

"The quirky and eccentric touches suggest the depths of emotion and even perversity that lie beneath the mundane and everyday."
The Stage 2009 on Room Temperature Romance

Following their award-winning residency at Barbican BITE, Levantes turn their uniquely flamboyant and eclectic stylings to the mysteries of synchronisity. A fantastical cocoon of colorful activity takes the audience on an indulgent trip into the contradictions of human connections.