A performance waiting for a spine to tingle...

Send two artists to the Arctic and what do you get? An extraordinary fusion of dance, poetry and science in ‘The Shiver’ - a spine-tingling dance performance exploring the emotions and events behind why we shiver - whether through pain or pleasure.

The Shiver - at Dorchester Corn Exchange on Friday October 15th – combines three beautiful Indian dancers with the words of poet Lemn Sissay - and concludes with a discussion introduced by Quentin Cooper from BBC Radio 4’s Material World.

The work came out of a cultural response to climate change - the Cape Farewell Project - in which both artistic director Subathra Subramaniam and Lemn Sissay spent time in the Arctic working with groups of young people.

Dorchester Arts’ Artistic Director Sharon Hayden said they were thrilled to be hosting such an innovative new dance: “On one level, this is a wonderful performance by three remarkable dancers - add the poetry of Lemn Sissay and the science underpinning it and you have an extraordinary evening’s entertainment.”

Subathra Subramaniam has choreographed numerous original pieces of dance for youth and school groups and was recently artistic director of “Returning to Dance Nepal”, a cultural exchange project between the Gurkha community of the Blandford Army Camp and the local community that included a dance work for 13 Gurkha soldiers.

Dorchester Arts welcomes the return of Lemn Sissay, a poet, playwright and broadcaster with an Ethiopian and Eritrean heritage. He contributes regularly to BBC Radio.  He is currently poet-in-residence at London’s South Bank. The Independent newspaper said: “His name is magic, his poems are the songs of the street.”

Tickets  £10 (members £8) Under 18s £6
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