Candoco Dance Company, the world’s leading contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers, has been creating acclaimed and cutting edge work for over 20 years. In this new double bill they are presenting works by two of the most exciting new artistic talents working in the UK today.
Hetain Patel’s Let’s Talk About Dis, is a mischievous and intimate piece that builds on an exploration of the dancers' personalities and bodies, interrogating questions of what identity is and how it is formed. With seductive charm, Hetain challenges audiences to think beyond...
Performed by Hannah Silva and produced by Penned in the Margins
In the grand tradition of literary terrorism, Hannah has ripped up her copy of Fifty Shades of Grey and now, surrounded by the crumpled pages and with the help of radical punk-pirate Kathy Acker, she attempts to put the female body back together. Join them on a journey through texts and voices pregnant with pain and pleasure, mothers and babies, domination and submission. In a performance as strange as it is beautiful, we discover there are no safe words.
Hannah will conclude this performance with a post-show...
A triple bill of inspiring and captivating dance theatre created by choreographers Olivia Lockwood and Michael Williams along with award-winning Adam Benjamin. Each piece has the underlying theme of memory and relationships – growing up, physical memory, relationship to space, developing friendships and journeys unfolding, growing and beginning. Not all of the pieces have a clear linear narrative but have apparent themes within them that are both readable and understandable.
The cast includes a variety of performers at different stages in their careers from graduates to dancers...
A new scheme to enable young people to lead their own creative projects has been launched in Plymouth. New Wave is inviting young people in the city to apply for small grants of between £50 and £1500 from today until 28th March 2014.
New Wave is run by the Real Ideas Organisation (RIO) as part of their brief as the Arts Council Bridge Organisation for the South West. The scheme aims to...
“If this is the future of dance, we’re in safe hands.” Evening Standard (on NYDC)
"They are strong, skilful and ready for anything" Daily Telegraph (on NYDC)
National Youth Dance Company bring their new work created by acclaimed 2018-19 Guest Artistic Director and recent Olivier Award nominee, Botis Seva.
Thirty eight of the UK’s best young dancers present a unique evening fusing contemporary dance, physical theatre and hip-hop. Botis Seva’s choreographic style combined with the young dancers’ energy and talent is set to produce an enthralling and...
Directed by Charlotte Vincent, ‘one of the most important feminist artists working in Britain today’ (The Observer), Shut Down explores the spectrum of modern-day masculinity and investigates the pressures, contradictions and confusions of being a man.
Vincent Dance Theatre’s first ever all male production is humorous and highly charged political and poetic dance theatre. Dance, spoken word, rap and real-life testimony collide to ask: what is it like to live as a man today?
