KINGS CROSS is in central London and has two main train stations, Kings Cross and St. Pancras, the latter having been recently redeveloped as the capital’s new Eurostar terminal. Thus one can consider this area as one of the principal gateways of London.
New developments and the programme of urban regeneration provide a stage for the dynamic interaction of residents and visitors. There is always something bubbling at the surface of the melting pot.


Having lived in the King Cross area for the last four years, day by day I have collected a vast amount of images and emotion that I would like to present now in a structured and illustrative form… The project, Kings Cross will not only strive to represent the physical place but also to narrate imaginary relations between the personalities who traverse this space yet are completely dissociated with each other.

I live in a constant
jam of sounds
and movements
I live in a place of silhouettes
I live in a city of metal
I live in chaos
I live in Kings Cross

Executives who come and go
Builders swarmin g
over the construction sites
Football fans chanting
Prostitutes who peer
seductively from doorways
Beggars, refugees, prisoners of the chaos
Tourists flocking towards crowds

PEDRO PIRES
will choreograph six dancers with a unique focus on the representation of the space and of the individual personalities. This representation will draw on the observed material from the King Cross area, transformed by the memory and imagination of the choreographer and the dancers. The performance will be based on improvisations and through the fusion of different personalities; it will narrate unexpected acts and stories. These acts and stories will rise out of emotions conditioned by the particular circumstances of the specific space.

CRE.ART
is responsible for the composition of the music that will be interpreted by the Cre-Art Contemporary Ensemble. I expect their work to be a chaotic reproduction of the sounds from Kings Cross.
Each musician/musical instrument will be connected with one personality. The music will thus reflect the chaos of the space where the individual personalities coincidentally meet but it will also reflect the imaginary relations and fusions between them as portrayed by the dancers.

HANNAH TERRY
is responsible to create the sculpture that will represent the physical dimension of the space. Metal tubes of the scaffolding will be used as a material for the construction of the sculpture, as this material was used during the reconstruction of King Cross area. The sculpture will serve as a base and a support for the creation of the portrayal of individual personalities and their imaginary relations. It will serve not merely as an object representing the area but it will also be explored as an artistic object by itself and thus it will influence the choreography.

Concept and Texts by Pedro Pires
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