Overdrive Dance Company
A safe environment for male-identifying young people to explore their creativity through dance and movement.
Pronounced [blank], this work explores the impact of change. In the knowledge that change will happen throughout our lives [ ] is captured in the glimmers of light and darkness.
2024
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A new dance theatre performance exploring young people’s relationship to mental health. Boys Do(n’t) Cry is a moving and physical portrayal of the power that support brings during dark times. The work seeks to reduce the stigma and discrimination of young people’s mental health.
2023
Boys Do(n’t) Cry
elemental is a brand-new dance film choreographed by 17-year-old neurodivergent choreographer Ross Hoey in collaboration with filmmaker Lewis Landini. This film was made in response to the climate crisis.
2023
elemental
What is it like to be a young person living in the world today? What is making us want to stand up and fight, or bury our heads in the sand, or just live for each moment? These complex questions form our existence as young people. Status:Changed is our response to the world today.
2022
Status: Changed
In February 2020, Overdrive was working together to create a new production exploring the place of young people in the world today. Then came the Covid-19 pandemic.
What to do with a show no audience has seen? The company came together during online and outdoor rehearsals, to reimagine a work for stage into the creation of a work for screen.
2021
Status: Changed (film)
In this humorous, sensitive and energetic work, the company explore male identities. By taking a look at who we are, and who we might become, the performance questions whether we have to accept what is expected of us.
2018-2021
3 billion
Faced by a new world, the company comes together to present Terra. A raw and energetic work that explores ideas of a future world and our survival.
“a real lava flow of hi-energy interactions”
The Herald
2016
Terra
