Moving Dust Presents SOMETIMES THERE'S LIGHT [SOMETIMES THERE'S DARK] as National Tour, Now thru 22 Nov

Moving Dust presents SOMETIMES THERE'S LIGHT [SOMETIMES THERE'S DARK], touring nationally from today 8-22 November 2014.

Performed in a village hall, an old warehouse, a derelict chapel and the gym of an ex-military barracks, this multi-sensory work uses handheld movable light and contemporary dance to create an intimate meditation on love, loss, grief and death. According to Total Theatre Magazine on Not For Sale, it is "an incredibly moving piece of theatre with beautiful low-tech theatrical techniques."

Hosted in a variety of atmospheric, non-traditional spaces across the UK, Sometimes There's Light [sometimes there's dark] blends contemporary dance with lyrical text in a sculptural light installation which brings audiences into the heart of the work. Allowing audiences to share space with the five performers and experience dance up close, the work will adapt to each of the spaces across the tour, creating a series of unique, one-off events.

Presented in unusual venues in London and the North East, this cross-artform work draws on the experience of borderlands (between countries and between sea & land) to create a meditation on the fluid boundaries between life and death, and our experience of loss and grieving. Our aim is that engagement with the project will have a lasting effect on people's own encounters with grief, by allowing us more freedom to express our emotional experiences of loss.

Artistic director Kate Sagovsky said, "I spent 6 months on a remote Scottish island where the style and pace of life is very different, and you have left behind many of the assumed norms of the modern world. It seems like life is stripped back to its elemental form: the sea, the sunlight, night and day, good food and the people around you. There was so much laughter, but tears too. It was a place where I could come to terms with lots of pain from loss I had stored up over the years. When I came back to the mainland I wanted to share this experience with other people - to bring them a window of space and a slowing of time to allow reflection on the beauty of life around us, filled as it is both with love and loss, great happiness and great sadness. Most of the text in the show was written on that island and this is my chance to bring a small bit of the island to people around the UK, to allow them to step out of their everyday lives for an hour and engage with something deeper, whatever that might be for them."

Moving Dust creates experimental performance with an international pool of long-term collaborators. The company's work spans theatre, dance, installation and large-scale outdoors work, and has been performed at venues and festivals around the UK, including at The Bush, The Arcola (Create Festival); New Wolsey Theatre (Pulse); The Place (Resolution!); and Pleasance Courtyard (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).

Kate Sagovsky is the artistic director of Moving Dust. She also works as a director, movement director and education practitioner across a wide range of contexts. She has worked at the RSC, National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, the Barbican, and the Southbank Centre. She has been invited to lead work in Japan, USA and South Africa, and attended by selection both the National Theatre Studio Directors' Course and the Lincoln Centre Theater Directors' Lab. She was nominated in the Off West End Theatre Awards for 'Best Choreographer' in 2011.

First performed at The Place as part of Resolution! Festival. Commissioned by Dance City, and supported by funding from Arts Council England

Trailer available at www.vimeo.com/MOVINGDUST

Running Time: 1 Hour | Suitable for Ages: 16+

For more information, visit the website at www.movingdust.com, the facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/moving.dust.3, or follow them on Twitter: @Moving_Dust.

Cast members include: Charlie Ashwell, Sarah Calver, Simon Carroll Jones, Marc Saad & Joe Wild

Devised by Kate Sagovsky and Charlie Ashwell, Ida Ballerini, Sarah Calver, Simon Carroll Jones, Sara Green, Vincent Manna, Garth McConaghie, Edmund McKay, Jane McLean, Jindeok Park, Marc Saad, Gabriella Schmidt & Joe Wild

Music Composition & Sound Design by Garth McConaghie. Set & Lighting Design, & Production Management by Edmund McKay. Direction, Choreography & Text by Kate Sagovsky. Assistant Director-Choreographer Sara Green. Associate Creative Producer Ida Ballerini.

Tour Listings:

8th Nov
Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-Upon-Tweed
The Barracks, The Parade, Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 1DF
£12, £10.50, £9 | 8pm
BOX OFFICE: www.maltingsberwick.co.uk | 01289 330999

9th Nov
Hindmarsh Hall, Alnmouth
Northumberland St, Alnmouth, Northumberland NE66 2RZ
£10, £8 | 4pm
BOX OFFICE: http://mdust.bpt.me

11th - 15th Nov
Asylum, London
Caroline Garden's Chapel, London SE15 2SQ
£15, £12.50, £10 | 7.30pm (Sat matinee 4pm)
BOX OFFICE: www.ovalhouse.com | 0207 582 7680

22nd Nov
Boiler Shop, Newcastle
Stephenson Works, South Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 3PE
£12, £8 | 8pm
BOX OFFICE: www.dancecity.co.uk | 0191 261 0505

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