8 Tender Solitudes Screening and Q&A
DANCE READING
Monday 14 November 2022, 7:30pm
Age: 12 years+
On Monday 14th of November, Dance Reading will be screening our short film 8 Tender Solitudes at 7:30pm followed by an online Q&A with Artistic Director, Sam Butler, plus dance artist at 8pm.
8 Tender Solitudes was created in collaboration with seven extraordinary dancers, each performing alone. Featuring a soaring score by composer Kate Whitley, it’s made from yearning and sensuality, anger and frustration, grief, memory and love.
Over the last year, we’ve had to learn new ways to connect with our friends and our loved ones. We’ve met each other at a distance, but rarely skin to skin. We’ve become fearful of breath, hugging and intimacy, and we’ve thought we might never be touched again.
When we’ve lived like this for so long, can touch ever be the same?
"Stunning. Global, trans-age, dancing digits that evoked the emptiness and pain so felt by all from the loss of intimacy…"
ANONYMOUS VIEWER
