• Archived Events/ Spring 2023

    Shôn Dale-Jones

    Still Floating by Shon Dale-jones. c.Jaimie Gramston

    Still Floating 

    Thursday 2nd March, 7.30pm

    Full £12 | Conc £8 | Age 14+

    When someone suggests that Shôn should remount his 2006 Total Theatre award-winning hit show FLOATING (Barbican, Sydney Opera House) about the Isle of Anglesey floating away from mainland Britain, he is sure it isn’t what the world needs right now. 

    2006 is not 2022. As Shôn explains why he shouldn’t present the show we find out that sometimes going backwards helps us move forwards.

    Told by two-time Fringe First winner, this is a funny, uplifting and moving story, making the real and unreal fit together in one surprising whole. 

    “Reduces audiences to tears and rapture”

    The Guardian
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    Image credit: Jaimie
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2023

    Action Hero

    The Talent by Action Hero, Deborah Pearson © Ana Viotti 2022

    The Talent

    Thursday 9th March, 7.30pm

    Full £12 | Conc £8 | Age 16+ | Theatre

    A woman in a sound booth is talking. She is talking to herself. She is talking to you. She is talking to everyone. She is gifted, professional, mercurial; it seems as if she can summon almost any kind of voice and create any kind of world. 

    She is selling you something
    She is telling you a story 
    She sounds like a cereal ad 
    She sounds like a cartoon 
    She sounds like a meditation tape 
    She sounds like a shapeshifter 
    She sounds like the ocean 

    You would listen to her say anything. Her voice is all around. Her voice is all there is. Her voice is all that’s left. She conjures her own ghost in real time. 
    The Talent is a new show by Action Hero and Deborah Pearson about the legacy of the human voice in a non-human future. 

    “Some of the most thrilling work currently being produced in the uk”

    The Guardian
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    Image credit: Ana Viotti
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2021

    Bert & Nasi

    The End, Bert & Nasi, photo by Richard Perryman

    The End

    Thu 14 Oct 7.30pm | Full £12 | Conc £8 | Age 16+ 

    In this new piece, Bert and Nasi dance the end of their relationship, imagining what a future without each other might look like. 

    Above the stage and projected onto a screen, two parallel narratives run alongside each other: the end of the Earth and the end of their collaboration. In the vein of their previous work, it is a poignant, sad and funny account of the ongoing ecological crisis. Their dance is a reminder and a celebration of our own mortality, and that of everything around us. 

    The End, Bert & Nasi, photo by Richard Perryman

    Time unravels and stretches on into infinity, but the end has never seemed closer

    Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor.

    Both insistently silly and unreservedly heart-rending

    ★★★★ Guardian

    Like shaking your muscles out, like a long-waited exhale of a show

    Ava Wong Davies, Exeunt. 

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    Image credit: bertandnasi.com

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2020

    3Fall Dance2020

    3 fall 2019/20

    THU 13 FEB 2020 | Full £12 Conc £8 | 7.30pm | AGE 14 +

    3Fall Dance Company is proud to present four professional works celebrating contemporary female choreographers. Kay Crook’s Phoenix is an emotive and infectious work based on her company piece ‘Khaos’.  Marisa Zanotti makes reference to Roland Barthes brief visit to a Bognor Regis nightclub in the work A Lover’s Discourse in Bognor  which reconstructs a dreamy night in a fantasy ballet.

    Carrie Whitaker’s Tracker is a fast moving work where the dancers shift through a spectrum of dynamic intensities as they tune into the ever-changing energy, tension and drive of each encounter.  with momentum, energy and texture.

    Finally, we celebrate a recent 3Fall dancer who has now established her own company Morvell Dance. Her work 7 Minutes of Mind Mischief  is fast, frenetic and fun.  The show offers a variety of dance theatre works that celebrate the talent of these young dancers and includes new works from emerging choreographers from the University of Chichester third year dancers.

    Image credit – Andrew Wolsfold

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2020

    mapdance 2020

    Mapdance 2019/20

    THU 5 MAR 2020 | Full £12 Conc £8 | 7.30pm |AGE 16 +

    mapdance 2020 offers an enticingly varied set of exciting new works by renowned and upcoming international contemporary choreographers. The gratifying roster of new artists this year includes Gary Clarke, Ceyda Tanc and Noa Shadur plus the revival of Inside the Animal by Jose Agudo from the 2018 tour.

    mapdance, the University of Chichester’s MA touring company, is an established group of dynamic young dancers recruited and touring nationally and internationally. Their diverse repertoire offers audiences a refreshing mixture of gritty dance-theatre, wry humour, and both intricate and questioning choreography. It is a programme that will appeal to both seasoned dance viewers and audiences new to dance.

    ‘… leaping and turning in zesty spurts with an insouciance that leaves nothing to chance’

    Donald Hutera (2016)

    ‘Agudo’s Inside The Animal delved even deeper into the existential swamp with a contemplation on reflexes and instincts that truly underscored how little human nature has changed during the so-called ascent of Man.’           

    Miles Hedley (2019).

    Image credit – Toni Nandi