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Blue Eyed Dance aim to turn the world of dance and disability upside down with this triple bill of dance and aerial work. TOUCH/Don’t Touch was jointly commissioned by Greenwich and Docklands International Festival and the Mayor of London. It was premiered in 2005 as part of ‘Dancing City’ at Canary Warf and presented as part of ‘Liberty’ London’s Disability Rights Festival in Trafalgar Square. CATCH Directed by Jess Curtis, CATCH defies convention as the all female cast - Claire Cunningham, Tanya Scully, Kate Mason, Victoria Malin, Rachel Freeman - perform an 18 minute aerial work that guarantees to inspire, entertain, thrill and scare. CATCH revels in the delights of defying gravity, working blind, being off balance, losing ourselves and finding each other. Derek Nisbet’s unique soundscore combines audio description, personal anecdotes and composed music. CATCH premiered in November 2005 as part of the Xposure05 Festival at Lillian Baylis Theatre Sadler’s Wells and featured in Blue Eyed Souls large scale production of Touch at the Shrewsbury Music Hall. HOOKED - devised and directed by Liam Steel, is about the insecurity of love and relationships. About waiting and wondering. About fearing the truth and acknowledging the moment you need to face it. Completing the ‘Don’t Push Me’ trilogy, Hooked uses the poetic analytical writings of psychoanalyst R.D. Laing and music from the cutting-edge band Bats for Lashes. This is Liam’s second project with BESDC; in 2003 he directed the critically acclaimed ‘Frankenstein’ which addressed the politics of cloning and the inherent fascism of our notions of being able to create a ‘perfect’ human being. Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company website.

Cast/Performers

Rachel Freeman, Claire Cunningham, Tanya Scully, Kate Mason, Victoria Malin, Derek Nisbet, Will Cleary

Creatives/Company

Director(s): Liam Steel, Jess Curtis
Choreographer(s): Liam Steel, Jess Curtis
Music: Derek Nisbet