Spill - A Playground of Dance: ON TOUR

After the World Premiere which featured in IDFB’s Family Weekend, Spill is now on tour around the West Midlands and Yorkshire – giving you more chances to see this highly playful and physical, and at times teasingly comical cheeky dance celebration of the child within.

Combining quirky, dynamic dance with high energy street gymnastics, the dancers in this performance blaze a colourful trail across the structures and landscapes of the playground. Each performance will be unique, as the show scrambles around, over, under and through swings, slides and roundabouts. Kids will love it, grown-ups will love it too!

Spill is a brand new outdoor production choreographed by celebrated Australian Artist Shaun Parker, of Shaun Parker Company. Using the existing children’s playground equipment as the set, Spill has been created specifically for parks in the West Midlands, aiming to take dance to the heart of communities.

Directed by: Shaun Parker
Original music score composed by: Nick Wales
Rehearsal Director: Corey Baker
Dancers: Wren Ball, Lewis Major, Kynam Moore, Sabrina Ribes-Bonet

For further information about the tour vist the DanceXchange website or check out our list of tour dates below!

SOLIHULL, COVENTRY AND WARWICK TOUR

Tuesday 19 June // Tudor Grange Park, Blossomfield Road, Solihull, B91 1NB // 2.30pm, 4pm
Wednesday 20 June // Meridian Park, Moorend Avenue, Chelmsley Wood // 2.30pm, 4pm
Thursday 21 June // Allesley Park, Allesley Hall Drive, Coventry, CV5 9AD // 2.30pm, 4pm
Friday 22 June // Abbey Fields, Bridge Street, Kenilworth, CV8 1BP // 2.30pm, 4pm
Saturday 23 June // St Nicholas Park, Warwick, CV34 4QY // 1pm, 2.30pm, 4pm

SHROPSHIRE AND TELFORD TOUR

Wednesday 27 June // Telford Town Park, Dark Lane, Telford, TF4 3NZ
Thursday 28 June // The Quarry, Priory Road, Shrewsbury, SY1 1RX
Friday 29 June // The Quarry (next to Quarry Swimming & Fitness centre), Priory Road, Town Centre, Shrewsbury, SY1 1RX & Wheeler Road (Ludlow Youth Festival), SY8 1JB
Saturday 30 June // Donnington Park, Gibbons Road, Telford, TF2 7JR
Sunday 1 July // The Mere, Ellesmere, SY12 0DQ

HEREFORD AND WORCESTER TOUR

Wednesday 11 July // Arrow Valley Park, Battens Drive, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 0LJ
Thursday 12 July // Ledbury Park, Bye Street, Ledbury, HR8 2AG
Friday 13 July // Victoria Park, Pickersleigh Road, Malvern, WR14 2LP
Friday 13 July // Dukes Meadow Playing Fields, Grove Road play area, Malvern, WR14 2LU
Saturday 14 July // King George Playing Fields, St Martin’s Avenue, HR2 7RQ // 3pm, 4.30pm, 6pm
Sunday 15 July // Gheluvelt Park, Barbourne Road, Worcester, WR1 3ET // 3pm, 4.30pm, 6pm

For more information, please visit the Dancefest website

YORKSHIRE TOUR

Tuesday 5 June – Saturday 9 June // Hull
Tuesday 12 June – Saturday 16 June // Bradford
Wednesday 4 July – Sunday 8 July // Barnsley

This project is part of the Outdoor Dance Programme, led by DanceXchange in partnership with Dancefest, Dancescape and Dudley Performing Arts.

This programme has been funded by Arts Council England with support from Legacy Trust UK and Advantage West Midlands as part of the Dancing for the Games programme, which is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.