A NEW dance work inspired by the lifecycle of the butterfly, Papyllon, by Ella Mesma, is being streamed by Pavilion Dance South West from Monday 18th to Sunday 24th January. This transformative new piece provides an opportunity to see a work in development from one of the UK’s rising dance talents. Responding to the need…
YEOVIL’S Octagon Theatre, which has provided the launchpad for many professional careers in theatre, music and dance, as well as bringing a huge variety of performances to audiences across the region, will be enlarged and improved in a £23m expansion, approved in principle by South Somerset District Councillors. The scheme includes a new circle of…
THE Marine Theatre at Lyme Regis reopens in October. A concert by Martin Carthy and his daughter Eliza, due on 31st October, has been postponed. The old theatre on the sea-front also has home-grown guitarist and singer-songwriter Adam Sweet and his new band playing their new album, Sink or Swim, on Friday 23rd October, alongside…
SALISBURY Playhouse will re-open in October with a socially-distanced six-week season of theatre, dance, music and live screenings, running between 14th October and 21st November. To follow government guidelines for indoor performances and social distancing, the capacity of the main house will be reduced from 512 to 148, with audiences sitting in their household bubbles…
A BRILLIANT young dance theatre company brings two powerful dance and film events, exploring contemporary issues of social and cultural change, at Messums Wiltshire in the 700-year old Tisbury tithe barn. Matsena Theatre Company will perform The Geometry of Fear in the barn on Saturday 5th September, followed by a screening of Error Code 8:46…
SADLER’S Wells will be streaming the Pina Bausch adaptation of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring for the whole month of July, raising funds for the north London theatre. Dancing at Dusk, starting at noon on Wednesday 1st July, was filmed on the beach at Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, just before the world moved into lockdown. It…
BALLETBOYZ return to Poole’s Lighthouse on Wednesday 18th March, with Deluxe, their new co-production with Sadler’s Wells. Following the success of their recent shows Them/Us, Fourteen Days, Young Men and Life, the Boyz are back and celebrating their 20th anniversary year. Deluxe fuses the work of some of the world’s most exciting and innovative choreographers and composers….
SURGERY may seem an unlikely inspiration for dance, but it is the informed background to a new dance work, in which three skilled performers will take the audience into the heart of the operating theatre, at Gillingham School on Saturday 21st March. Artsreach has just one performance by Sadhana Dance of Under My Skin, which…
A BAND made up of some of Dorset’s best known and most accomplished folk musicians will get toes tapping and feet dancing at Ashton Barn, Martinstown, on Friday 20th March, at the first of this year’s 30th anniversary special events for Artsreach, Dorset’s rural touring arts charity. The birthday barndance will feature caller Angela Laycock…
LEADING musicians, athletes, dancers and artists from around the world will gather in Salisbury for this year’s International Arts Festival, running from Friday 22nd May to Saturday 6th June. Performers will include Hofesh Shechter and his dance company, violinist Harriet Mackenzie, inspirational conductor Charles Hazlewood jazz star Jacqui Dankworth, Paralympian Ade Adepitan and world champion…