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Highly playful and physical, and at times teasingly comical – this is a 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.

 

The performance will tour to over 30 parks in 6 sub-regions of the West Midlands and Yorkshire in 2012:

 

Spill is part of the Outdoor Dance Programme, led by DanceXchange, in partnership with Dancefest, Dancescape and Dudley Performing Arts. It is part of the Dancing for the Games programme, which is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Spill is part of the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration from 21 June and running until 9 September 2012 bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK.

 

The research and development period for Spill and the original music score composed by Nick Wales have both been supported with funds from The British Council.