Phoenix Dance Theatre’s annual production Phoenix at Home opens this Thursday at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre in Leeds for three nights only.
The Leeds-based company tour internationally, but for eight years have kept a date in the diary for a performance in their home city.
This year’s production is a reworked version of a classic, an excerpt from a new piece by Sandrine Monin and a brand new comedic work about modern living.
Described by the New York Times as a ‘funny and sexy romp’ Robert North’s world-renowned Troy Game is a tongue in cheek parody of male machismo. It was originally an all-male cast, but Phoenix have re-worked the piece to include female dancers – the steps remain the same.
Company dancer and choreographer Sandrine Monin makes a welcome return with an excerpt from her new piece Kirke, inspired by the first sorceress in Greek Mythology. Monin has again teamed up with Italian composer Roberto Rusconi with whom she created the much-lauded piece Calyx.
Phoenix Youth Academy take to the stage with colourful and comedic new work Spam choreographed by company dancer Michael Marquez. Billed as ‘a mirror to the complexity of the cluttered world’, Spam relates to the perpetual need and desire to satisfy a temporary sense of happiness.
Phoenix at Home is at Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Quarry Hill, Leeds
Thursday 18th to Saturday 20th October 2018 at 7.30pm
2pm matinee on Saturday Tickets call 0113 220 8008 or click here.
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