FERTILE GROUND, the NE’s professional graduate dance company, led by artistic director Dora Frankel and now in its second year, has announced its 2016 tour, a triple bill entitled Dancing the Road.
The three pieces are:
- Eight Steps, choreographed by Malgorzata Dzierzon, explores the public space and how we negotiate it and wonders if we are just pawns in a public game of chess.
- Era choreographed by James Wilton, delves into the dark side of digital technology.
- Elephant Dances, inspired by The Bowes Museum’s exhibition From Temple to Home: Celebrating Ganesha, is devised by Dora Frankel and the members of the company.
The four members of the new company are Emma Palmer from Washington, Emma Robinson from Newcastle/Gateshead, Abbie Ross from Sunderland and Niall Tyzack-Carlin from Hartlepool.
The tour opens on 11 May at Sunderland College’s Bede Campus and then goes on to:
- 13 May at Middlesbrough College
- 14 May (10PM – part of The Late Shows) at the Sanctuary Artspace, Gateshead
- 20 May in the Henry Travers Studio at The Maltings, Berwick
- 24 May at Dance City, Newcastle
- 25 May (3–4PM) in Trinity Square, Gateshead
- 27 May at The Wytham, Barnard Castle
- >17 June (1:30 and 2:30OM) in Trinity Square, Gateshead: a special performance of Elephant Dances with children from Bede Community Primary School
- 24 June at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland
- 25 June: a special Elephant Dances Gala at Bowes Museum