PHOENIX DANCE THEATRE COME HOME THIS WEEK
Phoenix at Home Thursday 18th – Saturday 20th October
Phoenix Dance Theatre’s annual production Phoenix at Home opens this Thursday at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre in Leeds for three nights only.
The Leeds-based company tour internationally, but for eight years have kept a date in the diary for a performance in their home city.
“This last year has been amazing for Phoenix,” says Artistic Director Sharon Watson. “We have toured around the country with Windrush: Movement of the People, been nominated for several awards, we met the Prime Minister, performed at Tilbury Docks, visited China to promote Leeds and Yorkshire as a cultural powerhouse, and now we’re preparing to head home where we always enjoy performing – we were born in Leeds, we live in Leeds and we’re very proud of Leeds.”
This year’s production is a reworked version of a classic, an excerpt from a new piece by Sandrine Monin and a brand new comedic work about modern living.
Described by the New York Times as a ‘funny and sexy romp’ Robert North’s world-renowned Troy Game is a tongue in cheek parody of male machismo. It was originally an all-male cast, but Phoenix have re-worked the piece to include female dancers – the steps remain the same.
Company dancer and choreographer Sandrine Monin makes a welcome return with an excerpt from her new piece Kirke, inspired by the first sorceress in Greek Mythology. Monin has again teamed up with Italian composerRoberto Rusconi with whom she created the much-lauded piece Calyx.
Phoenix Youth Academy take to the stage with colourful and comedic new work Spam choreographed by company dancer Michael Marquez. Billed as ‘a mirror to the complexity of the cluttered world’, Spam relates to the perpetual need and desire to satisfy a temporary sense of happiness.
Phoenix at Home is at Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Quarry Hill, Leeds
Thursday 18th to Saturday 20th October 2018 at 7.30pm
2pm matinee on Saturday 20th
Tickets: £16 & £13
www.phoenixdancetheatre.co.uk / 0113 220 8008