Event Category: Festival
Ageless Early Bird Weekend Festival Pass 10-11 July
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Dance is universal. Dance transcends age. Join us for a two-day festival reimagining age. Featuring bold new dance performances, inspirational talks, workshops and installations from Abundance, Jo Fong, Susan Kempster, Mitul Sengupta and many more… Headlining this year’s festival are a retrospective of renowned French choreographer, Jérôme Bel and the premiere of Wild Hope by… View Article
Ageless Early Bird Friday Festival Pass
Dance is universal. Dance transcends age. Join us for a dance festival reimagining age. On Friday 10 July Ageless features bold new dance performances, inspirational talks, workshops and installations from Abundance, Mitul Sengupta, Company Cain, Funmi Adewole Elliott, Keisha Hamilton and many more… Headlining Friday night is a retrospective of renowned French choreographer, Jérôme Bel…. View Article
Ageless Welcome event and The Big Communal Boogie
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Ageless Welcome event and The Big Communal Boogie | 10.00-10.45am Join us for a warm Ageless welcome and introduction to the festival. Meet some of our guest artists and speakers and hear more about what to expect across the 2-day festival programme. Introductions will be followed by our big communal boogie, co-led by some of… View Article
An Obscure Camera by Flexer and Sandiland
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An Obscure Camera by Flexer and Sandiland | 3.00-4.00pm Evoking aspects of contemporary surveillance culture, An Obscure Camera, gives us the power to explore, seek, and inspect the outside world. In doing so, we navigate the fine line between observer and voyeur, physically enacting the choices made by the countless algorithms that analyse our daily lives. … View Article
Jérôme Bel
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Jérôme Bel | 7.30-9.30pm One of the most important international dance artists of the past 30 years, French choreographer Jérôme Bel presents a career retrospective he calls “auto-bio-choreo-graphy.” For ecological reasons, Bel no longer travels by plane. Instead, UK-based performer Terry O’Connor of Forced Entertainment plays him, challenging the boundaries between art and interpretation, performance and archive. A blend of… View Article
Ageless Early Bird Saturday Festival Pass
Dance is universal. Dance transcends age. Join us for a dance festival reimagining age. On Saturday 11 July Ageless features bold new dance performances, inspirational workshops, experiences and films from Susan Kempster, Marie-Louise Flexen, Jo Fong, Stefano Azario and many more… Headlining Saturday night is the premiere of Wild Hope, a new work co-created by… View Article
Wild Hope by TC Howard and Company of People
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Wild Hope by TC Howard and Company of People | 3.30-5.00pm Our wild and untamed Yorkshire landscape, shaped over millennia, with its wide open hills, sweeping moorlands, towering limestone cliffs, valleys, waterfalls and swathes of heather rising from the peat – is a place to feel beautifully insignificant and magnificently connected. Is this where time stands still or is time less easy… View Article
Bird Nerd and the Red List by Marie-Louise Flexen
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Bird Nerd and the Red List by Marie-Louise Flexen | 6.00-7.00pm Come with me, the Bird Nerd, as I encounter the Skylark, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Swifts, and Nightingale — four species of the 73 birds in the UK that are of high conservation concern. Marie-Louise Flexen takes us on a journey into their habitats and behaviours, weaving in… View Article
On the usefulness or futility of looking backwards by Susan Kempster
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On the usefulness or futility of looking backwards by Susan Kempster | 7.30-10.00pm Do you remember when the Sony Walkman happened? Mini, battery-operated cassette players with headphones, which meant you could walk the streets with music playing in your ears. It felt like being in a movie with a soundtrack of your own choosing. Now, it’s no… View Article