Richard Chappell Dance will tour Infinite Ways Home to Swansea, Ormskirk and Milton Keynes alongside Home Revisited, an evening celebrating dance talent in South West England.
Following two previous tours, Chappell’s first full-length production for a mid-scale stage, Infinite Ways Home, returns with performances at Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea (19 October), Edge Hill University, Ormskirk (26 October) and Venue MK, Milton Keynes presented by MÓTUS (29 October).
Infinite Ways Home connects ideas of Celtic traditions of ritual with modern day experiences of rave culture. Featuring six performers, this multisensory work combines ballet, contemporary dance and improvisation featuring music from Cardiff-based electronic duo Larch (Matthew Allmark and Kai Hellstrom) alongside live violin by Enyuan Khong.
Home Revisited showcases independent artists and community groups from across the local area at Exeter Northcott’s Barnfield Theatre (28 October) and Ashburton Arts Centre (10 November).
These mixed bills will include Vast Rocks Revisited, a reimagined version of its first small-scale creation from 2014, and an extract from Infinite Ways Home with new commissions from South West artists and performances from South West based community dance groups.
A specially commissioned version of Vast Rocks Revisited will be performed by an intergenerational community cast of local people at Open Season as part of Torbay’s Cultural Programme.