“I let the kittens outside into the garden for the second time ever. I stroked them and said nice things to them in a sweet voice to keep them close by to lessen the risk of their escape. But—and here is the LOL factor—in the end, I scooped them up in one hand, put them inside and shut the door.”

MAN-MADE is a new contemporary choreography from Oliver Connew. Gareth Okan and Oliver perform alongside each other in a work that points to the the presence of the ‘privileged’ physicality of the male body in our world’s power structures. Taking its inherent experiences of power, force and control, Oliver and Gareth send their male bodies into territory where these experiences are distorted and engineered to certain ends.