National Dance Company Wales announce 2019 UK spring tour: AWAKENING

National Dance Company Wales’ new tour, Awakening, journeys across the UK next spring, opening in Newport, South Wales, on 1 March, St David’s Day 2019.

Wales’ national dance company will visit eleven towns and cities across the UK throughout March, April and May 2019. The tour comes as the company enters a new phase in artistic leadership, under the recently appointed Artistic Director, Fearghus Ó Conchúir. The Awakening tour continues the company’s commitment to making engaging and innovative dance with and for all kinds of people in all kinds of place. Ahead of the 2019 spring tour, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Artistic Director at NDCWales said “As part our Awakening tour, we’re bringing a variety of work to our audiences.  This variety includes the intricate and indulgent world of Revellers’ Mass, a new work by our resident choreographer, Caroline Finn; the affecting magic of appearance and disappearance in Fernando Melo’s Afterimage; the moving simplicity of Lee Johnston’s They Seek to Find the Happiness They Seem, with its echoes of Astaire and Rogers, and the sleek precision of Marcos Morau’s award-winning Tundra.”

He continues, “This variety of work shows the versatility of the company, and its ability to offer audiences diverse perspectives on the world.  These are beautiful works that invite us to see something different and we’re looking forward to sharing that beautiful difference with audiences that come to see the work and with the people who join in our related workshops and creative engagement activities. All our work of preparation and creation only makes sense when we meet the audiences and participants of Wales and the rest of the UK, which is why this tour is so important for us.” 

NDCWales will be connecting with communities through dance participation and audience development activity in six venues on this tour, supported by the Foyle Foundation in Wales, and Arts Council England in England - in Bangor, Swansea, Mold, Shrewsbury, Huddersfield and Blackpool.

2018 has been an exceptionally busy year for the company with a UK-wide tour (Terra Firma), performances in Austria and Germany, a collaboration tour with Music Theatre Wales (Passion), an autumn tour of Wales (Roots), a collaboration with Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama as well as seeing over 6000 people engage in the company’s community-based performances and workshops around the country.