Running time: 60 minutes
Please note: this performance takes place in Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s studio space The Door, and is repeated at 1630 on Thursday
The Forest is a new dance-based performance piece for children aged 5-7 years, combining dance, images, sound and light. It’s the first in a new series of projects created for a young audience that explore ideas around natural landscapes.
It will not be a story set in a forest, nor will it be about any specific forest as such, rather it will explore and respond, through a movement and image-based performance, to ideas about forests: ideas about repetition and repeated forms; about nature and animals (and the idea of becoming an animal); about renewal, transformation and change: about scale, space, and distance; about becoming lost, and wandering, finding a path, and travelling through. It will be to do with seeing a distant sky, smelling the earth, and hearing the rustle of leaves.
Fevered Sleep recently completed a trilogy of projects for children inspired by the rituals of a child’s everyday life, with the performance pieces Feast your Eyes, And the Rain Falls Down and Brilliant. Brilliant was seen by over 11,000 people in 2008 and continued to tour to critical acclaim throughout 2009.
