Identity Parade

Event date: 21 February 2010 - 6:00pm
Cost: £3
Contact: Sarah Young
Phone: 028 7134 2266
Location: Echo Echo Dance Studio, Waterside Theatre, Derry-Londonderry BT47 6BG

Steve Batts

Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company's Artistic Director Steve Batts is performing a collaboration with international dancer Shahar Dor on Sunday 21st February at 6pm in the Echo Echo Dance Studio, Derry.

Steve and Shahar have worked and performed together periodically since
2000 including projects in Israel with Improbiza and in Ireland with
Bed of Roses in Portadown. Both men have a reputation for fearless improvisation so Echo Echo warns audiences to expect the unexpected.

The duo will spend a week in the Echo Echo Dance Studio exploring and creating- with neither dancer knowing what will happen. Batts and Dor will then perform this material in a movement and image-based theatrical piece.

Steve Batts said: " We intend to fall off the edge into the creative unknown. Shahar walks forwards, directly, looking for the edge- brave. Me, I walk backwards looking at the view of where I have been- distracting myself from the knowledge that behind me, sooner or later, is the edge of the chasm where I fully intend to plummet."

Performance on Sunday 21st February at 6pm and admission is £3 per person. For more information, visit the Echo Echo website www.echoechodance.com and the Echo Echo facebook page which will be updated with rehearsal images and videos throughout the week prior to performance.

Supported by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland.