Upcoming Projects
Where The Land Meets The Sea
Brighton Beach (to the right of the West Pier)
Saturday 15th July at dusk. Free.
As part of the nationwide Big Dance event 2006 and as part of Celebrating Age, Small Wonder and Cue Performance are co – producing a high profile and inspirational event in Brighton, involving organizations from all over the South East in creating a major new site - specific performance piece with people of all ages.
Where The Land Meets The Sea is directed by Charlie Morrissey and created in collaboration with 5 choreographers: Guy Adams, Anna Carlisle, Anne Colvin, Ruth Pethybridge and Dan Watson who are working with six professional dancers: Sarah Bishop, Annie Pui Ling Lok, Rachel Deadman, Scott Smith, Carrie Whitaker, Abi Mortimer, and six groups from around the region including Fuzzy Logic and the DeVyne Dancers.
The sea, the sky and the beach will become the landscape and backdrop for this site - specific performance danced by a cast of 90 people of all ages.
The sloping beach is a natural amphitheatre sloping down to a flat beach that, with the sea at low tide, becomes a huge stage of shallow rolling waves and reflective wet sand.
The piece plays with images which are both epic and intimate, tapping into peoples’ memories of past trips to the sea, of standing at the waters edge, of walking on the beach, of running from the advancing waves, and of rushing into them.
The beach is a place for everyone - young and old alike; a place that people constantly return to throughout their lives – from cart-wheeling and castle-building, splashing about and diving into the waves, to sunbathing and snoozing long warm afternoons away, strolling along the pebbles walking the dog, or sitting on a bench and staring out beyond the sea and into the horizon.
The performance works with the different qualities and energies of young and old, celebrating their differences whilst uniting them into an integrated whole.
Where the Land Meets The Sea will, at times, resemble a human version of the starlings that flock to the West Pier at dusk, and at times your attention will be drawn to smaller groups and to the whole group as a collection of individuals.
All the images work together to create an epic moving landscape that shifts in and out of the shallow waters in the changing light of the beach at low tide.
FROM THE DESERT TO THE SEA
September 1st and 2nd
Creating a major new site – specific project for the annual Spotlight event with Plush, The World Famous Fireworkers and Claire Deloon aerialists in Swiss Cottage, London. This event will combine live performance on the ground and in the air, with giant projections, pyrotechnics and a specially commissioned sound score mixed live.
LIGHTS OF LOVE
2nd December
A finale event on the seafront in Ryde for The Isle of Wights Lights of Love Festival created over an intensive training and rehearsal period with people from the Island.