The Enormous Room from Stopgap Dance Company, featuring disabled performer David Toole and Hannah Sampson as a father and daughter living different experiences of grief, will tour from 8 February to 20 March 2018.
Toole performed a prominent solo in the 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony and was in physical theatre company DV8's 2004 film The Cost Of Living. Sampson, a young dancer with Down’s syndrome, has received more than 10 years of training with Stopgap Dance Company.
Also in the cast are non-disabled dancers Amy Butler and Meritxell Checa, Cambodian wheelchair dancer Nadenh Poan and Christian Brinklow from Great Yarmouth.
The production is choreographed by Lucy Bennett, Stopgap’s Artistic Director.
The tour will visit:
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8 February: The Point, Eastleigh
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21 February: Gulbenkian, Kent
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23 February: DanceEast, Ipswich
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6 March: Tacchi-Morris, Taunton
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20 March: Salisbury Arts Centre