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South West Dance Hub present: an evening of Dance & Collaboration

Mon 10 Nov 2025

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100 mins (including interval)

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£5 Students & Under 25s

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7pm

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South West Dance Hub present: an evening of Dance & Collaboration

Come and share in this inspiring evening where you will experience dance in collaboration with sound, costume and film. These new works span the genres of dance and dance theatre and offer the opportunity to cross and blur artistic boundaries.

At this stage in the artist’s work we value audience feedback and support: engaging the public is an important in the process of development.

SWDH is passionate about supporting emerging regional dance makers and offering opportunities, so come and enjoy the new and exciting talent emerging in the SW.

A programme for the evening will be available nearer the time, through South West Dance Hub’s Facebook and Instagram


Performance Details


Curiouser – Swift Dance Company

19th Century newsprint is sculpted creating strange and wondrous objects. A dancer inhabits the words becoming the pages within. Sculpted paper and original sounds evoke landscape and character as a journey unfolds.

Concept & Design: Ruth Bell
Sound Design: Jenny Pill
Co-choreography & performance: Willa Faulkner

Layli & Majnun – Company SHE 

A tale of forbidden love, two lovers forced apart by societal constraints, reunited in the autumn of their lives.

LAYLI is explored through contemporary dance, spoken word and classical Persian dance. This performance features a solo excerpt of work in progress, an adaptation of the poem Layli and Majnun, as written by the Persian Poet, Nezami Ganjavi.

Choreographer & Performer: Maria Tarokh
Dramaturgy: Paul Liengaard

Penumbra (extracts)

An invitation to step into the darkness to explore shadow, underworlds and deep geological time.

Concept: NooN Collective
Direction & Staging: Clare Parker
Devised & performed by members of NooN Collective and Swift Dance Company
Music: Ric Byer x Arnont Nongyao

Projected Visuals: Emilio Mula

The Golden Spiral – Swift Dance Company

Inspired by the Fibonacci Sequence & the Golden Ratio, exploring patterns externally in the natural world & internally within our bodies we find spirals, flow, & moments of peaceful presence.

Direction & Sound Design: Jenny Pill

Performers: Ruth Bell, Tamsin Evans, Willa Faulkner, Clare Parker, Maria Tarokh

Words: Ruth Bell, Tamsin Evans, Jenny Pill Film: Ruth Bell

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VENUE: AUDITORIUM, EXETER PHOENIX


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