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Ben Wright

About Around

Following on from the critical success of bgroup’s first programme:
The Diminishing Present, in the Autumn of 2009 Ben Wright will premiere a distinctive new work for his company - About Around

Collaborating with four outstanding performers: Keir Patrick, Delphine Gaborit, Theo Clinkard and Anna Bjerre Larsen, About Around pays reference to the timeless tradition of a circular gathering, seating it’s audience in a ring of 50 chairs.


The dancers enact a sequence of events that chart the passing of
an hour, exploring ritualistic conventions from primitive to modern day. The result, is an intimate and spellbinding experience, bringing you so close to the skin of the performance, you are almost within it.


With lighting design by Guy Hoare and a sound score by Alan Stones, About Around is an immersive sixty-minute act of attention, that layers the visual and aural and let’s the audience do the mixing.


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This Moment Is Your Life

“Ben Wright’s entry for the 2008 Place Prize reminded us that dancing is good for the soul”

Time Out

"a giddily energising exercise in audience involvement...a terrific disco quickie"

Metro

"Ben Wright utilizes his passion for helping non-dancers loose their inhibitions"

The Radio Times

Originally created for the Semi finals of the 2008 Place Prize.
This moment is your life is rapidly gaining cult status. Swirling in a
world of 70’s disco grooves and glitter, big flares and big hair, Wright takes audiences on a journey from nothing to something spectacular
in 15 minutes.


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