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  • 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+ 

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    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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  • Archived Events/ Spring 2020

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2019

    3 Fall

    3fall 2019

    2019

    Thu 14 Feb 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 12+

    3Fall Dance Company presents 3 new professional works as well as pieces from emerging choreographers from the University of Chichester. Carmine De Amicis, who dances for Richard Alston Dance Company, has created the work ‘1943’. The piece is situated in a small Italian town under invasion during World War II.

    Antonia Grove’s ‘Ha Ha Ha’ explores uniformity and individuality within a group, as well as ideas of ritual practices and tribal dance.

    James Wilton’s ‘R504’ is an intense work exploring the regimes of Stalinst Russia.

    The show offers a mix of theatrical and captivating representations of contemporary dance theatre within a variety of themes.

    www.3falldancecompany.weebly.com

    Image credit: Andrew Worsfold
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2019

    Lîla Dance

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    The Hotel Experience

    Thu 14 Mar 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 12+

    A man checks into a hotel the night before his wedding, unaware that things may not be as they seem.

    As the clock ticks the walls around him seem to blur and dissolve. As fragments of his memories begin to tumble into the room, the hotel staff are transformed into past friends and lovers as they step through the walls and into his Hotel Experience. They fall from the ceilings, crawl out from under the bed and step out of wardrobes to face him once more with full force and in vivid colours. His stay becomes a night of doubt, hope, crisis, and unexpected encounters. When the sun rises, he has an important decision to make.

    Check-in to your local venue to watch your friends and family guest star alongside our four mesmerising dancers in this extraordinary night of dance. Come and find out why Lîla Dance are rapidly becoming one of Britain’s fastest growing dance companies, with a reputation for redefining community involvement in professional productions.

    www.liladance.co.uk

    Image credit: Dougie Evans
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2019

    mapdance

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    2019

    Thu 21 Mar 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 12+

    mapdance is an established exciting company of young, dynamic dancers recruited nationally and internationally. mapdance performs diverse repertoire by renowned and upcoming contemporary choreographers.

    This year the company has commissioned new works by Anthony Missen (Company Chameleon), Didy Veldman, Jose Agudo as well as a re-staging of Liz Aggiss’s History Repeating … created especially for mapdance. The mixed repertory offers a refreshing mixture of dance theatre, intricate lyrical choreography, fast-paced athleticism and wry humour.

    “Leaping and turning in zesty spurts with an insouciance that leaves nothing to chance”
    Donald Hutera (2016)

    Image credits: Rachel Cherry