Wed 16 - Sat 19 June 8pm

Richard Alston Dance Company returns to its home theatre at The Place for an Upclose season with the audience closer than ever to the action.

Dancing with the audience on all sides, close up and not just in front, means for RADC shifting its game. Unsettling in the best sense and exposing – you’ll see everything. Its Upclose programme has all this in mind, with brand new works by Richard Alston and Martin Lawrance. 

The programme includes:

  • Richard Alston's earliest existing work, Something to do, with text by Gertrude Stein, recreated as part of The Place's 40th anniversary celebrations
  • Even More, a new work by Richard Alston exploring the close contact and small signals between dancers
  • The premiere of Lie of the Land, a work by Martin Lawrance with music by Ryoji Ikeda.
  • Light Flooding Into Darkened Rooms, a 1997 duet by Alston inspired by the paintings of Vermeer and featuring live lute music played by James Woodrow.

Tickets for Richard Alston Dance Company Upclose priced £5-£15, go on sale on Friday 7 May.

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