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Balbir Singh Dance Company Solos & Duets • Champion of the Flatlands Circus Berzercus Beyond A Joke | Sunday’s Child My Name is Saoirse The Hut People In Concert | Woody Holler & His Orchestra In Concert Balbir Singh Dance Company SOLOS, DUETS & CHAMPION OF THE FLATLANDS • Swanland

The work of Balbir Singh Dance Company humane style which is most at home in is both highly original and innovative in smaller settings. its choice of subject, whose variety is Some of the work, has a particular affinity matched only by the range of settings with the rural, as Kathak is itself rooted in in which it is performed. Wherever it is rural Indian traditions. The contemporary seen, the work leaves audiences inspired, pieces too, such as A Solo Duet, bring a moved and opened up to the richness level of conceptual insight that is more of highly sophisticated – yet extremely often found in larger metropolitan venues. accessible – work by a choreographer whose mastery of culturally diverse Much of the work is designed to be forms of dance has won critical acclaim. performed with live music, and this, together with Balbir Singh’s reputation for The company has attracted international attention to detail, ensure the audience attention through high profile work such are treated to an engaging artistic as the Cultural Olympiad commission experience that will linger long in the Synchronised during the 2012 memory. Olympics, which wowed audiences and live critics alike. balbirsinghdance.co.uk Despite this capacity for delivering large scale work, Balbir Singh’s choreography

ArtERY retains at its heart an intimate and Circus Berzercus A MISMATCH MADE IN DEVON A hilarious, highly-skilled circus show for all the family. Ladies and gentlemen … Circus Berzercus are proud to present the Great Phil-dini, champion juggler, master of manipulation and dexterity, a legend of the circus world. Unfortunately, we must also announce that will be accompanied by his hapless stage-hand Horace, whose eagerness to entertain outshines his talent. Expect spectacularly high unicycling, The Hut breath-taking ladder balancing, juggling and a touch of magic, all interwoven with physical People comedy and mayhem. IN CONCERT Phil Blackmore, star of Britain’s Got Talent, teams up with Covent Garden Jester of The Catwick • Bishop Burton • Withernsea Year, Rupert Elford, in this all new Circus Taking the audience on a musical trip across Berzercus double-act from Devon. Phil is the globe, this very popular duo perform one of the UK’s top jugglers and variety a hugely engaging, entertaining and truly entertainers who has performed all over the unique blend of ‘world-folk’ music led by a world. Rupert, who plays Horace, trained at driving accordion and a dazzling array of Circomedia, one of Britain’s leading circus exotic percussion! schools and has performed professionally Great music and virtuosity aside, a show for over twenty years. from The Hut People is overflowing circusberzercus.co.uk with humour, spontaneity and a 100% commitment to their ‘getting-the- crowd-involved’ ethos. Highly, highly recommended. This is a brilliantly unique sound from – a duo of piano accordion and percussion defiantly unbounded by British traditions as they stride into world music. The Scotsman …music that’s in turn dramatic, joyous and hypnotically beguiling … a bewildering array of percussion and accordion-fired compositions … truly infectious! BBC Radio 2 www.regentmusic.com thehutpeople.co.uk Woody Holler & His Orchestra IN CONCERT Lund Woody Holler & His Orchestra are purveyors of ‘western swing’ music … and so much more. Woody grew up hearing the songs of the cowboy. Although he was later trained in opera, a sense of nostalgia held him close to the early western genre. Woody met up with some top notch jazz Sunday’s musicians and the crossover was magical. Consisting of some of Canada’s finest folk/ Child jazz musicians, Woody’s orchestra creates MY NAME IS SAOIRSE a style that Woody defines as “jazz from the saddle”. Greg Lowe on guitar, Richard Swanland • Beverley Moody on violin and Danny Koulack on Rural Ireland, 1987. Saoirse lives in a peach bass add clever arrangements rich with coloured bungalow with her Da and big virtuosity and style. brother Brendan. Her best friend is Siobhán, The repertoire is eclectic, fun and who has a glorious fountain of ginger hair, fascinating, featuring finger snapping swing a whisper like a foghorn and distracts all beats, honey slowed love croons and show the men at mass. Saoirse prefers running stopping ‘extreme’ yodelling. through fields to chasing after boys, but her best friend has other ideas. After a night out The audience had saddled up to join him for drinking with the lads, Saoirse discovers the adventure. They were with him every her pregnancy and is forced to set out on step and hoof print of the way, perfectly a journey that will take her miles away from attuned to the mood of each song. her home and the carefree adolescence woodyholler.ca she once knew. My Name is Saoirse is an award-winning one woman show, set in 1980s rural Ireland. Described by Three Weeks as “humorous and heartwarming,” the piece is a tender and moving coming of age story that follows Saoirse, an ordinary, extraordinary 15 year old growing up in conservative Catholic Ireland. Three Weeks ★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ Edinburgh Guide ★★★★★ The Argus ★★★★★ sundaysctheatre.co.uk ArtERY live listings Spring 2016 Date Time Venue Contact

The Hut People In Concert

Sat 5 Mar 7.30 Catwick Live @ Village Hall HU17 5PR 01964 544947 • 07951 075045

01964 552364 • 01964 552303 Sun 6 Mar 8.00 Bishop Burton Village Hall HU17 8QJ [email protected]

Box Office 01964 613355 Fri 29 Apr 7.30 Withernsea, Meridian Centre HU19 2HH 01964 613072

Circus Berzercus A Mismatch Made in Devon Box Office 01964 613355 Sat 19 Mar 7.30 Withernsea, Meridian Centre HU19 2HH 01964613072

Woody Holler & His Orchestra In Concert

Sat 9 Apr 7.30 Lund Village Hall YO25 9TF 01377 217776 • 01377 219598

Balbir Singh Dance Company Longcroft School : Solos & Duets • Champion of the Flatlands Swanland: Solos & Duets

Thu 14 Apr 7.00 Beverley, Longcroft School HU17 7EJ 01482 870751 • TIC 01482 391672

01482 634863 Sat 23 Apr 7.30 Swanland Village Hall HU14 3QR [email protected]

Sunday’s Child My Name is Saoirse 01482 634863 Sun 1 May 2.30 Swanland Village Hall HU14 3QR [email protected] 01482 870751 Beverley, St Nicholas Community Mon 2 May 7.30 [email protected] Centre HU17 0PY TIC 01482 391672 ArtERY live and other outlets in the area or by request from Blaize. Further leaflets are available in libraries, Tourist Information Centres Lottery through Lottery Council Arts England to manage Blaize receives financial support from public funding by the National w e ArtERY watch for posters with local information. prices, booking information, venue directions and access details or Call the contact number given for each venue for details of ticket Booking music to a village near you Bringing theatre, dance and Rural Touring Scheme 2016 Season Spring design www.dg3.co.uk Company based in Yorkshire. by Blaize, a community arts organisation and Social Enterprise England. Both ArtERY live and Live Lincs projects are managed The scheme is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council ArtERY Thanks to

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