Information for Jules Cunningham - Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels: CROW/Pigeons at Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London (Dance or ballet). In CROW / Pigeons, Associate Artist Jules Cunningham offers a tender exploration and disruption of normativity. CROW / Pigeons are connected by the composers and performers Julius Eastman and Pauline Oliveros, who worked from the 1960s onwards on themes of queerness, and they experienced marginalisation based on race, sexuality and mental illness. CROW is a reimagining of a performance between Pauline Oliveros and Julius Eastman that happened nearly fifty years ago in New York. Drawing on those experiments to move away from meticulous, technical choreography, Cunnigham and collaborators explore a more spacious world of responsive ritual, symbolism and connected solitude, qualities associated with the crow. Jules and Harry Alexander will perform alongside guest musicians. Pigeons, by contrast, is irritated by its own relentlessness - with dancers including collaborators Harry Alexander and Yu-Chien Cheng dancing nonstop to Eastman's 30-minute composition, Gay Guerilla, from 1979. Working with pigeon groupings and behaviour, the dancers explore ways of being alone and together, disruption and distraction. Pigeons is a Stanley Arts Queer Arts Commissions in collaboration with Raze Collective and part of This Is Croydon's Queer Arts Development Strand. CROW and Pigeons are created in and amongst different communities moving together and drawing in South London with residencies at and support from Bethlem Gallery. Created with public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.