Dorset’s Cultural Olympiad kicks off!
Friday 1 April - Desert Crossing
State of Emergency Dance Company
Dorchester Corn Exchange 8pm
£10/ £8 members / £6 under 18’s & concessions
Friday 1 April heralds the start of Dorset’s exciting Cultural Olympiad programme. Dorchester will be hosting an exceptional contemporary dance company – State of Emergency – performing their ground breaking new work Desert Crossing.
Inspired by the similarities between our South West Jurassic Coast and the Skeleton Coast of Namibia this exciting work explores human evolution and how the landscape influences us all.
Five dancers from different cultural backgrounds, directed by acclaimed South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma, produce a stunning visual journey across deserts, seas and mountains.
They create life forms that are neither fish nor bird, man or woman, spirit nor flesh but united through their shared history of the rocks on which they stand.
A powerful celebration of our Jurassic evolution.
Friday 15 April - Peeling
Forest Forge Theatre Company
Dorchester Arts Centre 8pm
*** Touch tour for visually impaired 7.30pm ***
Tickets: £8 / £6 members and conc.
Peeling, by Kaite O’Reilly, is a darkly comic play revealing the choices women make and the things they hide...
It gives audiences a unique and compelling experience as it cunningly interweaves audio description and sign language.
Alpha, Beaty and Coral are three actresses hoping for their big break, waiting in the wings, in the chorus of a production of The Trojan Women.
As they wait for their cues the three girls bicker, chat and swap stories. Gradually we learn more about them as they peel away layers of their stories along with their ridiculous and cumbersome costumes!
“A dense and dangerous play… the characters are tragic and comic, heartbreaking and ridiculous... a major piece of Theatre” The Guardian.
SATURDAY 16 APRIL - PHIL BEER - SOLD OUT!
Box Office 01305 266 926
www.dorchesterarts.org.uk
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