- Produced by Dance Umbrella
- Price Free
- Get ready to rise!
- Bring along expressive, physical action.
- Surf to event page.
- See you at Somerset House
Created with more that 200 women, Everything That Rises Must Dance is a compelling celebration of female movement, incorporating both the everyday and the universal.
Dates, times and locations:
Sat 26 Sep, 14:00 & 16:00, Peninsular Square, Greenwich Peninsular
Sun 07 Oct, 12:30 & 14:00. BOXPARK, Croydon
Sat 13 Oct, 15:00 & 17:00, Somerset House, Strand
Featuring more than 200 women across London, Everything That Rises Must Dance is at once meditative and mechanical, rippling with choreography that reproduces the minute movements of daily life while weaving in fragments of folk dance from around the world, the spectacle sets expressive, physical action to an evolving sonic score.
Director and choreographer Sasha Milavic Davies is known for making engrossing large scale work within dance and theatre and here has devised everything that rises must dance with composer Lucy Railton. This intriguing project exploring relationships, identity and community receives its premiere as part of Dance Umbrella 2018.
Dance Umbrella is supporting the Mayor’s #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign to celebrate the centenary of the first women winning the right to vote and tackle gender inequality in London.