Dance season starts with a Rosie double

Sep 19 2008 Theatre By Diane Parkes

BIRMINGHAM dancer and choreographer Rosie Kay is to launch this season’s DanceXchange season with a double bill of new work.

Taking place at the Patrick Centre at Birmingham Hippodrome, the first work is Double Points: K which was first seen as part of this year’s International Dance Festival Birmingham.

Rosie joins forces with dancer Morgan Cloud for a piece of precise movement set to a mix of electro and classical music and taking the work of Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten as a start point.

“I first saw Emio Greco’s work Double Points: Two in 1998 at Edinburgh International Festival, and I think it may have changed my life,” says Rosie, who formed her dance company in Birmingham four years ago. “Little did I know that nearly ten years later I would be dancing my own version of this work. This to me is a massive honour and quite scary.”

Sitting alongside Double Points: K is Supernova, which takes inspiration from the outer space blasts generated by dying stars and features five dancers.

It follows the success of previous works including Asylum and The Wild Party which toured the UK last year taking in DanceXchange and Warwick Arts Centre.

Ticket Info

On stage Wednesday September 24. 0844 338 5000 and www.dancexchange.org.uk