AWARD WINNING CHILDREN’S SHOW – CHALK ABOUT COMES TO GREENWICH DANCE
Following a critically lauded run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer, Curious Seed’s Chalk About begins its national tour this month, and you can see it first at Greenwich Dance on Saturday 18 October.
Winner of the Primary Times Children’s Choice Award, Chalk About is a family dance theatre show to delight children and adults alike.
Chalk About is the result of a creative relationship between Christine Devaney and Leandro Kees that began in November 2011 when the two artists met at the very first Fresh Tracks Europe – a youth dance network for a new generation of choreographers. Working together for 10 days Devaney and Kees began to explore the nature of identity through a series of questions: What makes us who we are? Is it where we are from? Or how we talk? Is it the way we dance? Our pasts or our futures?
Chalk About (trailer) from Curious Seed on Vimeo.
The work was developed into a full-length show for young audiences which premiered at the Imaginate Festival in Edinburgh in 2013.
Devaney says, “When we presented Chalk About at the Imaginate Festival in 2013, I couldn’t have envisaged the journey that it would take us on! I am delighted to have MOKO Dance as our first touring partner and super excited to be bringing Chalk About to such fantastic venues. I’m really looking forward to sharing this work with audiences throughout England.”
The show is being brought to south east London by The Greenwich Dance & Trinity Laban Partnership, in association with MOKO Dance a national dance touring partnership supported by Arts Council England, dedicated to opening the eyes of children and their families to the power of dance.
Tickets are £8 or £6 concessions or £20 for a party of four, and available from Greenwich Dance on 020 8293 9741 or greenwichdance.org.uk.
Curious Seed was founded in 2005 by Scottish choreographer and performer, Devaney. The vision of the company is to create engaging, thought provoking, uncompromising performance work with physical expression at its core. The company is committed to exploring new ways of challenging and developing the scope of movement-based performance. There is an emphasis on engaging in a process that evolves and is appropriate to each project. Curious Seed has a history of collaborating with a core of outstanding artists across the arts – musicians, actors, designers and film-makers.
Previous productions include the solo work Almost, But Not Quite for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2005), and Code Butterfly, a large scale site-specific work for young women (2007). Their production of found was presented to great acclaim during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009 and went on to win a Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Total Theatre Award nomination. The company’s recent work includes P U S H which toured Scotland in 2012; and an Edinburgh Fringe run of The Woman Who Wants to be Funny (2012).
Chalk About
Date: Saturday 18 October
Time: 2.00pm (50 minutes no interval)
Venue: Greenwich Dance, The Borough Hall, Royal Hill, London SE10 8RE
Price: £8/£6 concessions. Party of 4 £20
Book on: 020 8293 9741 or online here
5 stars ‘Some of the most brilliantly imaginative, humorous, touching theatre I have seen this year.’ The Times
5 stars ‘Uplifting and thought provoking, this is a show that will stay with me… a 5 star show, see it if you can!’ Primary Times
5 stars ‘Beautiful, heartfelt… immensely funny’ Broadway Baby
‘For parents and children who are sick of shows about singing toilets and talking animals, this is clever, artistic children’s theatre that anyone would enjoy.’ Broadway Baby
4 stars ‘Expressive… delightful … elegantly choreographed.’ Metro
4 stars ‘Moving and refreshing in equal measure, but its reach extends beyond mere entertainment… The opportunity it brings to connect and share what we all have in common, should be encountered, enjoyed and explored – whatever your age.’ Edinburgh Guide
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