Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures – Saturday 17 August
Dance Woking was delighted to be once again partnering with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures to present their highly popular ’Doorstep Duets’, on Saturday 17 August in Woking Town Centre. This was Dance Woking’s last activity this year, whilst the organisation takes a break to give us time to consider new ways of working and funding.
Dance Woking has for the past thirty years enjoyed the support of regular funding from Woking Borough Council (WBC), and delivered a series of highly valued programmes, adapting and changing these over time to best serve the local community and environment. More recently Dance Woking’s programme has sat under the ‘Inspired’ brand, including our Inspired Learning Programme. Following WBC issuing a 114 Notice last year, and only being able to support statutory provision, the financial support Dance Woking received ceased. The lack of this regular funding has meant our current way of working is unsustainable and as an organisation we have had to make some difficult decisions rethinking how we might work differently in the future. As part of this process we will be taking a break from delivering activity this autumn.
It is with great pride that Dance Woking is able to bring Doorstep Duets, originally created in 2021 by New Adventures and Farnham Maltings as a response to social isolation. This project offers free opportunities where people can enjoy short world-class performance in their local neighbourhood, on their street, in local parks, and through community-based organisations, the aim of the project is to bring joy, escapism, and connection, and make world-class dance more accessible to everyone.
New Adventures, Doorstep Duets this summer is ‘Hum’ by choreographer and movement director Anjali Mehrawith with original music by Luke Brady. Just as the actions of the hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world, are essential to life in the towering rainforest, in Hum one small gesture of kindness to a stranger ripples out to create a community for those who need it most.
Doorstep Duets trailer
Doorstep Duets will also visit a Care Home and local Estate in Woking
Details: https://new-adventures.net/doorstep-duets#overview us
