THICK AND TIGHT

Patricia Langa has been associate artist since 2017 with Thick and Tight and has appeared in several production of the renowned duo. They trained together at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary dance and since then they have been very close friends and have supported professionaly each other since then.

RELEVANT WORKS:

THE STATE ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WITH THE PEOPLE (FILM)

EXCELLENT TOGETHER

Excellent Together is a joint venture which has evolved between Corali Dance Company and Thick & Tight. It is a research project where individual dance artists from Corali are connected to a dance artist from Thick & Tight’s networks. Each dancer from Corali has a learning disability and has lived experience of being marginalised from society. The artists they are paired with all align with or ally the queer-focused work that Thick & Tight produce.

Patricia Langa and Jackie Ryan were paired together to create a duet called ‘Oye como va’ full of rhythm and glamour set to the Cuban beats of Tito Puente. They presented their duet at Duckie's Posh Clubs in Hackney, Elephant & Castle, Brighton and the International Day of Persons with Disability, at the Royal Opera House and . They called themselves THE RHYTHMICS.

The duo still perform, and they are now applying for separate funding to continue their work together.

Photos by Jon Archdeacon

The Royal Opera House commissioned Thick & Tight to make work for a Pride event for children in 2022, as part of their Family Sunday programme.

Thick and Tight put out a call to staff at the Royal Opera House, asking if anyone would be willing to be interviewed about what Pride means to them.

They edited the interviews together to create a woven tapestry of sound, revealing experiences and attitudes of people from the ROH’s LGBTQ+ community. The words were interpreted by 4 dancers; Patricia Langa, DJ Hassan, Eleanor Perry and Daniel-Hay-Gordon.

They made this work with the hope that it encourages more open conversation and understanding within the Royal Opera House and among their audiences.

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