Northern Platforms: Dance City

Guest artists from Yorkshire and Edinburgh
showcase work alongside North East dance-makers. An eclectic evening of short pieces that provides a snapshot of contemporary dance across the north.

Featuring:

North East - Peter Groom, "Go Away Johnny"
If the moments of quiet in our lives were elongated over a longer time, what would happen? This piece explores the memories that come back to us in these moments, returning not fully formed but half remembered; half remembered encounters, conversations, touches.

North East - Alice Henry, "Muse"
"Muse" is a physical exploration of the elite athlete’s physical and mental capacity, Alice's admiration for, relationship to, and the unattainable pursuit of the superhuman. 

Yorkshire - Akeim Toussiant Buck, "Windows of Displacement"
Akeim takes his experience of becoming and being a UK citizen and makes uncanny connections to the narratives of the disenfranchised in our world today. Bringing up questions of past, present and future. Analysing the plight of post-colonies of the Empire through Jamaica and galvanising people through self-realisations and provocations. 

Scotland - Martyn Garside, "Amok"
"I killed love but you live only dead in my head.
So take a sad song and cry, what does it mean to die?
I held your funeral in my heart nobody came but I.
So sing a sad song and cry, what does it mean to die?"
A contemporary dance solo that explores the stages of amok.