FIVER FRIDAYS are a Producers’ Project of CDS that supports members, volunteers and friends of CDS through a unique performance package.

We offer more dance for your dosh over Fridays in November and February and May.

Upcoming – November Fiver Fridays

 

4th Nov –  EXIT MAP ENTERS

Exit Map was founded to create work with other dancers, and it incorporates improvisation and collaboration as a major tool of work for performance. As a platform Exit Map stimulates connectivity between makers, performers, audiences and environment, where everyone involved shares responsibility, integrity and authorship. Currently active as Exit Map are founder Laura Doehler, Tania Soubry, Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot and Catherine Elsen.

11 & 12 Nov – THE BOSTON TOURING GROUP 

The Boston Touring Group is a grassroots initiative that is propelled by a mutual desire to share professional performance work internationally. Emphasising the values of rigour, research, athleticism , and relevance, The Boston Touring Group is a dance collective comprised of two Boston-based dance companies and one Providence-based company. Each artist involved embodies a deep passion for international adventure, and crosscultural artistic exchange.

Kat Nasti Dance (Paul Laurey & Liz Roncka) | Jessie Jeanne and Dancers (Jessie Jean Stinnett & Guests) | Doppelgänger Dance Collective (Danielle Davidson & Shura Baryshnikov)

18 Nov – DRAG BEASTS 

Drag Beasts is part of James Morgan’s ongoing research into monstrosity, hybridity and drag. He presents his new work, ‘DRAG ON’, alongside Antonio de la Fe’s ‘Crocodile’, with Foxy and Husk and Eleanor Sikorski screening video works. They all share a similar point of arrival: a drag act that moves beyond gender and across species.

 

25 Nov- HIGH FIDELITY

Double bill featuring Vanessa Skantze and The International Western.  The IW have been working together in London since 2012. Their work is about the technosocial mechanisms of contemporary living when “Writhing treasure… ” by Vanessa Skantze explores the body as a threshold between childhood and adolescence; life and death; death and decay.