NORTHERN HERITAGE CELEBRATED IN
POWERFUL NEW DANCE WORKS PERFORMED ON SPRING TOUR BY LEADING REGIONAL DANCE
COMPANY
Newcastle based Eliot
Smith Dance has since its inception in 2012 taken its work across the North
East and beyond. With four new exciting dancers from Cyprus, Spain, Italy and
Scotland joining existing company dancers
ESD is on the move throughout the region in April and May in a Triple Bill of works.
Eliot Smith's newest
creation PORTRAITS OF COURAGE is
inspired by the genius and courage of four great northerners: William
Armstrong, George Stephenson, Grace Darling and Emily Wilding Davison, and is the
perfect dance work to complement the
planned Great Exhibition of the North, celebrating the North’s great art,
culture, design and innovation that has shaped our lives.
MOONLIGHT depicts one
couple's passion as they explore the strength of their growing love for each
other under the moonlight in a vivid and powerful pas de deux.
Eliot's hugely popular
PITMAN returns in the form of three new sections: The Miner, Progging the Mat
and The Xmas Tree set to popular music of the 20s and 30s. It tells the story of the miners and their
community through dance interpretations of the famous paintings of the Pitmen
Painters that are on permanent exhibition at Woodhorn Museum.
The life of the these
talented Northumbrian miners will find a resonance in Spennymoor, the home of
the Spennymoor Settlement and the so called Pitman’s Academy which nurtured the
talents of working men such as Norman Cornish and Sid Chaplin.
The performance affords
the opportunity for two local young people to join the professional dancers in
ESD’s interpretation of the Xmas Tree.
There will be an
opportunity to see local talent on display, when members of Chance 2 Dance,
based in Sunderland, take part in a curtain raiser performance.
Eliot Smith explains “I
never really use elaborate stage effects for my works, I focus on the body
alone, the movement and the emotion. My
new Triple Bill really does offer you that.
I am inviting my audience back to our great Victorian era, and to
celebrate our Pitmen Painters. Expect
powerful dancing fused with our love of the North-East heritage.”
This programme is
supported and funded by Arts Council England, Northumberland Arts Development,
Akzo Nobel and Dance City. PITMAN is in
collaboration with Woodhorn Museum, with kind permission of The Ashington Group
Trustees. PORTRAITS OF COURAGE is in
partnership with Armstrong Studio Trust and George Stephenson Railway Museum.
Website: www.eliotsmithdance.com
Spring 2018 Tour dates
and venues:
Saturday Apr 14, 2018
GOSFORTH CIVIC THEATRE 7:30 PM
Sunday Apr 15, 2018
GOSFORTH CIVIC THEATRE 2:30 PM (MATINEE)
Saturday Apr 21, 2018
SUNDERLAND ROYALTY THEATRE 7:30 PM
Friday Apr 27, 2018
BLYTH PHOENIX THEATRE 7:30 PM
Saturday May 05, 2018
BAMBURGH PAVILION 7:00PM
Saturday May 12, 2018
WARKWORTH MEMORIAL HALL 7:30 PM
Thursday May 17, 2018
NEWBIGGIN MARITIME CENTRE 7:30 PM
Saturday May 19, 2018
SPENNYMOOR EVERYMAN THEATRE 7:30 PM
Duration: 70 minutes
including 10-minute interval
Tickets: www.eliotsmithdance.com/tickets
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