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Performances

At Dance Blast Centre we host a variety of performances from our community sessions to professional artists nationally and internationally.

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Ysbrydoli/Inspire

Dance Blast

Abergavenny Castle Grounds

Friday 18th & Saturday 19th April - 5pm

What Inspires you?

Is it amazing people past and present?

Stories from history or tales of fiction?

Maybe you are inspired by the environment around you. Ysbrydoli / Inspire is a site specific dance and circus performance at Abergavenny castle that explores the theme of inspiration.

Brought to you by Dance Blast, a centre for community dance and circus in the heart of Abergavenny, Ysbrydoli will be performed by 55 Dance Blast community members; young people and adults, including the following commissions:-

Acro-Dance duo, ‘Joli Vyann’ have created a piece with Monmouthshire Youth Dance Company inspired by the aviation pioneer Charles Rolls, from Hendre, Monmouth.

Kevin Turner MBE,Co-Artistic Director of ‘Company Chameleon’ has created an inclusive dance piece with both MYDC and MCDC inspired by the castle itself, over the centuries, weathering meteorological storms and storms of battle.

Rhi Matthews, costume maker and designer has worked with MYCC to create Stilt characters inspired by Lady Lllanover, sponsor of Welsh Folk culture and her husband Ben Hall, who is the namesake for ‘Big Ben’.

Further pieces have been created by our company classes supported by their Artistic Directors, Sarah Rogers, Kim Noble and Elle Kate.

Boy’s Blast, Advanced Atomic and Chepstow Youth Danceability will also be performing supported by their tutors; Mitchel Aldridge, Hayley Feehan and Eluned Owens

This project is partnership with MonLife Heritage

£12/£10 concession

Family ticket £40 (two adults, 2 under 18s)

BOOK TICKETS

This event is wheelchair accessible. It is a promenade performance please feel welcome to bring your own camping/portable chair if you wish, there will be an interval and a bar. There will be limited seating provided for audience with mobility issues.

Funded By:-

An Autopsy of a Mother, a Bear and a Fridge

By mover, maker and mother Deborah Light

Dance Blast Centre

Sunday 11th May - 5pm

You are warmly invited to witness the examination of three seemingly unconnected objects.

As Deborah uncovers connective tissue, between mother, bear and fridge, she reveals her own vulnerability, anger, humour and strength. With cold clinical brutality, warm openness and hot feminist rage she exposes both personal experiences and patriarchal systems that place pressure on the female body.

A powerful and intimate dance/theatre experience.

A script (paper or digital) is available in advance on request and at the performance. This script contains visual reference points and details about the music/sound elements contained in the production.

Funded by Arts Council Wales

Supported by Chapter, NDCWales, YMa and Taking Flight

£12/£10 concession

Age guidance: 14yrs+

Content Warnigs:

References to:
Death, motherhood/matrescence, surgery, violence against women,

gender based inequality, ageing, climate change.

Potential strong language.