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'My People' at Aberystwyth Arts Centre 7.30pm, Thursday 20 March, 2014. |
Acclaimed Welsh dancer Gwyn Emberton returns to Wales with his company to present and tour My People, a new dance theatre co-production with Aberystwyth Arts Centre in March 2014.Inspired by author Caradoc Evans’ controversial collection of short stories of the same name, this new work sees Gwyn Emberton and his company of five international dancers (including from Slovenia, France and Italy) delve into the dark, turbulent, and mythical world of fictional village Manteg. Composers Benjamin Talbot and Victoria Ashfield, whose recent work can be heard on S4C/BBC Wales’ Y Gwyll/Hinterland, are creating a new score that will add to the work’s haunting and compelling mood. Lighting Designer Aideen Malone whose has designed for Akram Khan Company and the Bristol Old Vic will be designing the lighting, with costumes created by designer Neil Davies. After leaving Wales to train as a dancer in London, Emberton went on to perform internationally with many leading choreographers and companies such as Scottish Dance Theatre, Matthew Bourne, Akram Khan, Jasmin Vardimon (UK) and Inbal Pinto (Israel). He recently worked with Cardiff based company De Oscuro on their production of Macbeth with Eddie Ladd and Gerald Tyler. Emberton is an associate artist at Aberystwyth Arts Centre who is co-producing this production. Gwyn Emberton says ‘After years of working in London and Israel I'm very grateful for the opportunity to be making and performing my own work at home in Wales. I am incredibly fortunate to be able to bring such a talented group of collaborators together, with whom we will take on the intense and crazy world of Caradoc Evans's My People.’ ’Without the kind support of Aberystwyth Arts Centre and in particular Gill Ogden, Head of Performing Arts there, I would not have been able to bring this work to life or even to start making my work here in Wales. It is particularly poignant that we are making the work as a co-production with the Centre as the original book was based on Evans’s impression of life in the area.’ ‘This project has only been made possible due to the generous support of the Arts Council of Wales and the Kevin Spacey Foundation and the belief in the work of our crowd funding supporters, who gave us the initial boost that helped us get the project off the ground.’ Emberton concludes, ‘I am excited to be able to take my work and company on tour in Wales. After the premier at Aberystwyth Arts Centre we go to my ‘home’ theatre The Hafren where I first started dancing as a student at Coleg Powys and then on to Theatr Harlech and to the Dance House at Wales Millennium Centre.’ Gill Ogden, Head of Performing Arts at Aberystwyth Arts Centre says ‘This is beautiful, haunting work with choreography of the highest quality – this promises to be an impressive debut from a welcome new presence on the dance scene in Wales’ To book contact Aberystwyth Arts Centre ticket office on 01970 62 32 32 or go online www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre. |
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