Dance

Take part in a mixed programme of dances, under the guidance of experienced teacher Mike Freke, whilst enjoying the heritage of the Town Hall’s Supper room. Requests for specific dances are welcome.

4 characters find themselves immersed in darkness, Inside them a whisper calls; And to the flame they go.

Taking you to another world this performance is raw, powerful and intense. Fluidity waves throughout the performance giving the dancers an internal sense of unity; instinctively knowing where each other are and where they are going.
 

We are celebrating Dance this season in partnership with Rural Arts Wiltshire and local dancer Amy Foskett. Amy started her contemporary dance career as a teenager at the Arc Theatre, Trowbridge and went on to join Swindon Dances training programme, and complete a BA in contemporary dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of music and dance. Amy lives, teaches and performs in London but is coming back to Trowbridge to lead on this celebration of dance to share her energy and skill and inspire our next generation of dancers. Amy will run a series of workshops in schools and for the community as well as premier her new show with us.

Last Man Standing draws from the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett. The performance is about living for the moment, about appreciating every second and enjoying life while it lasts.

An intimate new dance-theatre work, Points of Echo is a haunting tale of love, death and monsters, blending the tones of a Wes Anderson movie with the eerie dread of The Twilight Zone. Isolated for one year Eric Valen-tine and Bernard Rose have been stationed at an unnamed lighthouse, at an unknown time, somewhere on the coast of England. Strangers to each other, the pair have just begun to lay down the foundations of a friendship when disaster strikes and a mysterious stranger arrives.