The Last Quartet | Seke Chimutengwende

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Wainsgate, Hebden Bridge

18th September 2026, 7:30pm

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The Place, London

24th - 26th September 2026, 7:30pm

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Lancaster Arts

13th November 2026, 7:30pm

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In The Last Quartet Seke imagines a “last work” or a “last attempt” at choreography. Four dancers enter and exit the stage through gaps in the audience, sometimes alone, sometimes in pairs, sometimes in trios and sometimes all together. They are figuring everything out through movement - how to begin, how to connect, how to change, how to end - leaving fleeting traces of scenes, relationships, and characters for the audience to contemplate. They share the stage with composer Jamie McCarthy, whose elegiac, electro-acoustic score evokes the slow and sudden changes of weather systems and cloud formations. Dressed in deconstructed formal wear, they dance in irreverent counterpoint to Marty Langthorne’s improvised lights, framed by the fading glamour of a golden curtain.

Seke is thinking about this “last work” as an opportunity to go back to the beginning; back to the core elements of dancing and music, to imagine them anew. With no fixed sequences of movement and no fixed order of events, The Last Quartet offers a glimpse of limitless possibilities and new beginnings in this current moment where hope is scarce and futures lie everywhere in ruins.

“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time”

- T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Choreography and Direction: Seke Chimutengwende

Performers: Seke Chimutengwende, Charlie Ashwell, Temitope Ajose, Matthias Sperling

Music: Shoures Soote* by Jamie McCarthy, performed live by Jamie McCarthy

Rehearsal Director: Stephanie McMann

Dramaturg: Efrosini Protopapa

Set Design: Bethany Wells

Costume Design: Annie Pender