Name: OVER THE WALL, A Dance Performance by Edgefield, part of HERE Exhibition
Start: 2021-07-03T19:15:00+01:00
End: 2021-07-03T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Saxmundham Hand Car Wash

OVER THE WALL, A Dance Performance by Edgefield, part of HERE Exhibition

The Art Station is developing Saxmundham Station as a new contemporary arts space, and arts education programme for coastal Suffolk community and station users.

The Art Station, Saxmundham

Sat July 3rd  At 7.15pm and 8.15pm  ( 20 mins )
OVER THE WALL. A new work  by Edgefield Dance Company. A leap of faith for 2021

Saxmundham Hand Car Wash

ARRIVE By 7.15pm LATEST for 7.30pm and 8.15pm LATEST for 8.30 Gates will be closed 15 mins before performance.Performances will start promptly at 7.30pm and 8.30pm and each performance will last for 20 minutes.Please donate what you can afford, when you book your ticket to support Art Station&#x27;s art and learning programme.OVER THE WALL is a short dance piece inspired by a photo by Don McCullin taken in 1971 &quot;Gangs of Boys Escaping C.S. Gas Fired by British Soldiers, Londonderry, Northern Ireland.&quot; Edgefield are attempting in this piece to deal with the collapse of society and structure as we have known them and the ensuing suspicion, isolation and then the collective intention to dare to take the leap of faith, ultimately to rebuild relationships. Edgefield Dance Company is a group of trained dancers living and working in Suffolk under the artistic direction of Deborah Watkins Jones. Debbie draws on an interest in spaces, places and relationships as the inspiration for her choreography. She looks within her work at how they affect us and our movement then how we in turn effect change on them. Make an evening of it by stopping in down the road at <a href="https://www.velapartners.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Vela</a> café and art gallery. Vela will be open until 10pm serving a great selection of drinks and German food.**Edgefield Dance Company will also be running two taster workshops on Sunday 11th July in Saxmundham Market Hall, all are welcome, and no experience necessary - full details can be found here: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/160963023737" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/160963023737</a>This performance is part of <a href="https://theartstation.uk/exhibition/here/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HERE</a>, the launch exhibition of Art Station’s new creative and cultural space in the former post office building in Saxmundham, Suffolk. It is curated by artists Clare Palmier and Jane Watt celebrating new and recent work by emerging and established contemporary artists with a strong connection to Suffolk and East Anglia. Twenty-five artists with a diverse range of practices that reflect contemporary engagement with materials, process and ideas have been invited to install work across 5500 sq ft of the previously disused 1950s industrial building. Works include site-specific installation, sound, video, VR, photography, drawing, painting, ceramic, sculpture and performance by artists such as Graham Crowley, Maddie Exton, Laurence Edwards, Emily Godden, Kabir Hussain, William Cobbing, Ann-Marie James, Abigail Lane, Emily Richardson and Srinivas Surti.HERE is open from 12-5pm on Saturdays and Sundays - from 26th June - 25th July. Entry is free, but pre-booking is required via: <a href="https://theartstation.uk/exhibition/here/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://theartstation.uk/exhibition/here/</a>The Art Station is a non-profit arts organisation developing a new workspace for artists, creative industries and tech in rural Suffolk Coastal. HERE is part of Art Station’s arts programme for the local and wider coastal Suffolk communities. It supports and showcases artists across the region and beyond through commissioning new work, exhibitions, education projects and artist peer critique. This exhibition is made possible thanks to public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and an award from East Anglia Art Fund.

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