The Dukes steps into its new season by hosting a double bill of dance with a difference on September 13.
Succession is presented by Lancaster-based LPM Dance Theatre, a Dukes associate company, and is an evening with inclusivity at its heart featuring dancers and choreographers with and without disabilities.
For many years, LPM has worked with Lisa Simpson, a choreographer with quadriplegic cerebral palsy who creates her dance pieces through a trained translator.
Her latest work is Migratory which fuses contemporary and hip-hop dance styles to explore the theme of migration and is her first with a company of non-disabled dance graduates.
Lisa said: “although I’ve been choreographing for many years, I have worked mostly in community settings and it’s been a big ambition to raise my profile within the wider dance context. This is an exciting new step.”
The new piece will be danced by the South Asian Swati Dance Company.
The second half of the bill will see Vous choreographed by LPM’s George Adams and performed by Indepen-dance, Scotland’s only professional integrated dance company of four dancers with and without disabilities.