Abundance

Abundance is an intergenerational dance performance that invites audiences to slow down, rest and reconnect. Six dancers – three professional dancers and three volunteer dancers from Queen’s Hall’s 55+ contemporary dance technique group – move through moments of pleasure, weight and release, accompanied by live music from Me Lost Me.

The work begins with a pause - a spacious moment of stillness. People move, howl, rest, leap, reverberate, and hold one another. 

Colourful duvets fill the space – folded, flung and gathered – worn, sculpted, hidden beneath and danced within, shaping shifting landscapes that emerge and dissolve with a sense of play and imagination.

At its core, Abundance asks how we might move differently together.

The performance sits within a wider Abundance programme at Queen’s Hall, which includes clay workshops for over 55s on Wednesday 25 March and Wednesday 1 April, and a community feast on Saturday 18 April.

Choreographer: Lizzie Klotz
Collaborators & Performers: Alys North, Eve Walker, Jia-Yu Corti
Sound Designer & Performer: Jayne Dent
Designer: Bethany Wells
Lighting Designer: Barnaby Booth
Dramaturg: Rosa Postlethwaite
Volunteer Performer Support: Amy Becke
Creative Collaborator: Luca Rutherford
Mentors: J Neve Harrington, Rosemary Lee
Photographer: Amelia Read
Videographer: Alex Ayre

Abundance is commissioned by Dance City and Northumberland Dance Development, with R&D support from Moving Art Management through their Seed to Stage Micro-Commissions, and is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.