A HEREFORDSHIRE company is celebrating a major milestone with a series of events and more.
2Faced Dance Company will be marking its 25th birthday with a number of events, projects and campaigns that celebrate the people, places, partnerships and performances that have made 2Faced Dance Company what it is today.
With its signature style of highly athletic and innovative performance the company has performed to over 850,000 people in 29 countries.
Always daring to be different the company, founded by artistic director Tamsin Fitzgerald, has refused to take the easy route, creating challenging work from a rural location.
Ms Fitzgerald said: “We decided very early on to keep our base in Hereford, and we are proud of what our hometown has done for us. We have seen young people attend classes and leave as artists, create work that both reflects and challenges our local audience and invited the world’s best artists to come and create incredible work in Hereford and then perform it across the world”
Kicking off the celebrations will be the launch of a new space exchange scheme, Catapult, for local and regional artists, theatre makers and shakers. This will offer free creation space to artists in exchange for the delivery of a workshop to other makers.
From October 29 to November 2, the team will bring an immersive, theatrical escape room experience, Locked & Accused. Audiences will have to navigate eerie underground prison cells to clear their name and find their freedom.
For schools, families and children, the company starts its UK wide tour of FISH BOY at the end of September and will perform the show at The Courtyard on 15 January 2025. The work focuses on the destruction of our rivers and has had huge acclaim and rave reviews from audiences.
The company will continue to offer free places to those unable to access dance classes due to economic circumstances.
To support this the company will be running its 25 for 25 Campaign (#25for25) which will encourage people to donate £25 towards the company’s future, including a legacy fund, enabling those who cannot afford to access the class programme and work the opportunity to do so.
And it doesn’t stop there, with this next 12 months set to be the company's biggest yet, and further announcements promised over the next few months.
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