HEREFORD'S 2Faced Dance Company has some exciting projects in the pipeline for March and April, starting on Saturday and Sunday with performances of The Trench, alongside students of St Mary’s RC High School in Lugwardine.

This promenade performance offers a poignant reflection on war and is open to members of the public to attend.

Having taken the 27 names inscribed on the Lugwardine War Memorial as a starting point, pupils at the school have been working in partnership with the dance company for a number of months to create a performance that studies the lives of these soldiers, whilst also incorporating testimonies from current service personnel and their friends and families which resulted from extensive research carried out alongside Rural Media.

The Trench was awarded £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund in July of last year, enabling the project to go ahead.

As part of the project, St Mary’s School have built a replica trench within the school grounds which, as well as being used for the performance, will act as a living classroom for years to come.

Tickets for The Trench at St Mary’s School on Saturday and Sunday, March 21 and 22 at 7.30pm can be purchased from the school office on 01432 850416 (during school hours).

Also coming up from 2Faced Dance Company is this year’s Easter School, an increasingly popular holiday workshop open to children aged 6 – 18 years, which this year takes place from Wednesday, March 30 to Friday, April 1.

The sessions run from 9.30am to 3pm each day at Hereford Academy of Dance and the holiday workshop culminates in a performance for all participants, professional skateboarders and BMXers at Hereford Skatepark on Friday, April 1.

Places are available for all three days for £60 or for £25 per day. To book a place on 2Faced Dance Company’s Easter School, visit 2faceddance.co.uk/get-involved/holiday-classes There are also a limited number of bursary places available - for more information, call the office on 01432 276807.

Next week, on Tuesday, March 24, the company presents Dreaming In Code, described as a breath-taking collision of kinetically charged dance and theatre, at Malvern Theatres. Comprising two pieces; milk night, choreographed by Eddie Kay for Frantic Assembly and Lucid Grounds, by the company’s own award-winning artistic director Tamsin Fitzgerald, with an original soundtrack from composers Angus MacRae and Tony-nominated Alex Baranowski, and a cast of five male dancers, 2Faced Dance explore what the future could look like in this powerful and fearless new work.

milk night is a poignant and thought-provoking piece of physical theatre that sees the cast thrown into a world of the unknown, a world without women, while .

Lucid Grounds uses powerful design, music, light and reflection to lead the audience on a journey through an all-encompassing world which explores what might happen if we were able to directly experience one another's memories or dreams.

To book for Dreaming in Code at Malvern Theatres on Tuesday at 7.45pm, call the box office on 01684 892277 or visit malvern-theatres.co.uk