Riot Ensemble Play Steve Martland Danceworks
Music of Resistance and Stillness
| Steve Martland | Dance Works |
|---|---|
| Lisa Streich | Falter |
| Frederic Rzewski | Coming Together & Attica |
| Riot Ensemble | |
|---|---|
| Aaron Holloway-Nahum | Conductor |
Riot Ensemble unites three uncompromising voices whose music dances between protest and poise. Martland’s ‘Dance Works’ surges with raw, rhythmic energy, while Rzewski’s ‘Coming Together and ‘Attica’ transform repetition into resistance. In contrast, Lisa Streich’s ‘Falter’ offers a fragile stillness — a quiet meditation on breath, fragility, and the aftermath of movement.
Riot Ensemble brings together three radical voices from the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Steve Martland’s Dance Works pulses with raw, muscular energy: a celebration of rhythm, rebellion, and collective drive.
Frederic Rzewski’s “Coming Together and Attica“, written in response to the 1971 Attica prison uprising,
give voice to anger and solidarity through relentless repetition and spoken word.
In striking contrast, Lisa Streich’s Falter invites us inward: a meditation on fragility, suspension, and the
stillness that follows struggle.
A concert about bodies — moving, breaking, resisting, and becoming still.
This event will last for approximately 1 hour without an interval.
Concessions & Under 30s tickets
Kings Place Concessions Tickets
We want to ensure that people who may be struggling financially to purchase a ticket can still enjoy visiting Kings Place. A limited number of tickets are allocated for certain events (if the ticket type does not show in the booking pathway, it means they are not available for this event or have all been sold). Concessions tickets are accessible for people on the following criteria (for more information visit our FAQs)
- Pension Credit
- Universal Credit
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- Income Support or Job Seekers allowance
- Students
£10 ‘Under 30s’ tickets
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Plan your visit
Getting here
Kings Place is situated just a few minutes’ walk from King’s Cross and St Pancras stations, one of the most connected locations in London and now the biggest transport hub in Europe.
Our address is:
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.
The Venue
Our performance spaces are situated on the lower ground floor. Hall One, Hall Two and St Pancras are located in level -2, reached by stairs, escalator and lift from the ground floor entrance level.
Event Times
Door times indicate auditorium entrance times only. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the Kings Place seating areas, gallery-level art, canal-side terrace, café, restaurant and bar throughout the day and evening.
- Our events begin promptly at the advertised start time. Typically, there is no support unless otherwise stated.
- We recommend arriving in good time before the performance. The Hall doors will open 30 minutes before the performance to allow time to take your seats, or to choose a space for standing shows.
- Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance where possible
Access
We aim to make your visit to Kings Place as comfortable as possible. For more information about the accessibility of Kings Place, including details about our Access Scheme, please visit this page.
If you would like to discuss your access requirements with a member of our team, please get in touch with the Box Office team at info@kingsplace.co.uk.
Food & Drink
Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
Rotunda, situated on the ground floor of Kings Place, offers a unique dining and drinking experience alongside Regent’s Canal. The concert bar in the venue foyer will also be open for select events.
Green & Fortune Café
Recently re-furbished and now open with a new look, the Green & Fortune Café is open for selected concerts. Serving hot and cold food and drinks, including sandwiches, salads, soup, stew and a pie of the day, alongside a choice of cakes made by the on-site bakery team. See here for selected concert dates and standard opening hours.
About Riot Ensemble
Winners of the Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize, Riot Ensemble is an internationally renowned group dedicated to the creation, exploration and presentation of great contemporary works and new music yet to be discovered. The members of Riot are some of the top European soloists in new music, and with Riot they work as performers, curators, commissioners, and collaborators, creating and producing a diverse array of projects.
Based in the UK, Riot is particularly active in bringing emerging international voices to the British new music scene and since 2012 has given over 350 World and UK premieres by composers from more than thirty-five countries. Their annual call for scores repeatedly receives more than 500 submissions, and over the past ten years has resulted in twenty-five commissions. Riot enjoys close working relationships with some of the most important composers of our time, including Liza Lim, Clara Iannotta, Chaya Czernowin, Ann Cleare, and Georg Friedrich Haas whose evening length piece Solstices was commissioned by Riot.
Reviews
‘One of the pre-eminent new-music groups in the UK…The group should also be commended for their championing of contemporary works that are neither being premiered nor part of the standard repertoire of new music ensemble.’ Caroline Potter, Tempo
‘Riot Ensemble champion new music and always surprise with the freshness of their repertoire.’ Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian
‘I feel utterly electrified. A wild and mesmerizing end to an evening rich in psychoacoustic weirdness.’ Robert Berry, The Wire
‘The instruments battle for control and find themselves driven literally by regular bullwhip lashes. I love it….Wow!’ Toon Traveler, Outside Left