Lone Twin (GB)

Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters formed Lone Twin in 1997. The British duo are widely regarded as leading artists in the field of contemporary performance, their work is met with critical and popular acclaim as national and international audiences enjoy an ever-diverse range of works for stage, studio and public space. They were recently, announced the winners of the Artists Taking the Lead commission for the South East with “The Boat Project”, which will form part of the Cultural Olympiad for London 2012.
Some of Lone Twin's recently commissioned projects include an eight-day performance “Spiral” (Barbican London, 2007), “Town Crying”, (Dott 07 Festival, 2007) and “Speeches” (Barbican 2008, Bath ICIA 2009). The steirischer herbst festival 2006 featured their commissioned work “Nine Years“.
In 2006, Whelan and Winters formed the collaborative ensemble Lone Twin Theatre. The company’s debut work “Alice Bell” premiered in 2006 at Kunstenfestivaldesarts, the second piece “Daniel Hit By A Train”, premiered in 2008 at Wiener Festwochen and 2010 has seen the company create a third work, “The Festival”, which completes “The Catastrophe Trilogy”. The premier at the Barbican achieved four star reviews from The Times and Time Out. All pieces toured the UK and Europe in spring 2010.
In 2009 the company began work on a number of new projects including “Street Dance”, a community dance event that premiered at nottdance 09 and “Beastie”, a unique live experience for children, which was preceded by an workshop in the last years festival and will be staged at this year’s steirischer herbst festival.

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