Motionhouse announces next major multimedia touring production

Dance-circus company Motionhouse has announced that its next major touring production, Hidden, will premiere at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, in February 2025. The show will then head off on an extensive premiere tour across the UK and Europe, followed by a second tour starting later next year, with touring continuing into 2026 and beyond.

Currently in creation, Hidden will explore how, in an increasingly divided world, light can come out of darkness in times of crisis. 

Kevin Finnan, Artistic Director: “I’m interested in looking at how, in the darkest moments we face, when our whole world seems to tilt on its axis, humanity can come together to help one other through challenging times. It seems to me that although this aspect of humanity is sometimes hidden, it is a fundamental component of our survival as a species.”

Building on the successes of previous productions, including 2021’s Nobody, which has toured to more than 35 venues since its premiere in 2021, Hidden further develops the company’s unique dance-circus language, absorbing elements from other physical forms and fusing them into a distinctive and visceral movement language. 

An extraordinary shape-shifting set will integrate seamlessly with digital projections, instantly transforming the world on stage and creating a ‘living film'.

Finnan works collaboratively with the dancers to create the choreography and movement vocabulary as he develops each new work. He sets creative tasks and allocates time for the dancers to ‘play’ on the set in order to explore the possibilities that this offers in terms of being an ‘apparatus’ for the movement to take place on.

Finnan: “I’m excited about the material we’ve created so far - we’re embracing the relationship between dance, digital and circus in a new way for this production, developing our movement language and exploring new innovations in our use of digital technology. I feel like we’ve really taken another step forward. Everything in Hidden feels quite different from what we’ve done before. I hope Hidden will be a really beautiful show for audiences.” 

Hidden is co-commissioned by FABRIC, Birmingham Hippodrome and Warwick Arts Centre. Created with support from the John Ellerman Foundation and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK.