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Home > Dance > An intimate tale of lighthouse keepers

An intimate tale of lighthouse keepers

By Caroline King - January 30, 2018Posted in : Dance, FEATURED-STORIES, Theatre

Point of Echoes (Photo: Ed Collier)

Point of Echoes (Photo: Ed Collier)

When: 9th February – 19th March 2018

Where: At various venues across the UK

£: Ticket prices vary, depending on the venue. Suitable for ages 14+

What is it?

Point of Echoes is an intimate tale of lighthouse keepers, designed especially for village halls, set to tour town and country this Spring.

Created as a collaboration between choreographer Ben Wright and musician/writer Stuart Warwick, Point of Echoes is a haunting tale of love, death and monsters, set on a lighthouse somewhere off the coast of England.

It’s the first commission from the Rural Touring Dance Initiative (RTDI), a project designed to boost the amount of contemporary dance on offer in rural communities.

The year is 1978, isolated from the mainland, Eric Valentine and Bernard Humphries have been stationed at Echo Point lighthouse. The unlikely strangers have just begun to lay down foundations for this odd working relationship when the uncanny occurs.

Point of Echoes will be touring to the following locations:

St Chad’s Village Hall, Leamington Spa CV33 9QX on 9th February.

Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, Staffordshire ST13 6AD on 10th February.

Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL on 12th & 13th February.

Llandinam Village Hall, Powys Wales SY17 5DN on 15th February.

Trowbridge Town Hall, Wiltshire BA14 8EQ on 16th February.

AMATA, Falmouth University, Cornwall TR10 9LX on 23rd February.

Point of Echoes (Photo: Arnim Friess)

A tale of lighthouse keepers (Photo: Arnim Friess)

Calstock Village Hall, Cornwall PL18 9QA on 24th February.

The Point, Eastleigh, Hampshire SO50 9DE on 28th February.

Lazenby Village Hall, Middlesborough TS6 8DX on 2nd March.

The North Wall, Oxford OX2 7JN on 7th March.

Waterfront Café, Fleetwood, Lancashire FY7 6HF on 9th March.

Barton-on-Humber Assembly Rooms, North Lincolnshire DN18 5QP on 11th March.

Swindon Dance, Regents Circus Swindon, Wiltshire SN1 1QF on 15th March.

Small World Theatre, Cardigan, Wales SA43 1JY on 17th March.

More info: www.benwright.info

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