Earthfall Dance Company Presents CHELSEA HOTEL, 10/1, 12/5

After the success of last year's award winning At Swim Two Boys, Earthfall Dance Company's latest production, Chelsea Hotel takes you across the water to New York City and this infamous building, the bohemian artist mecca. Chelsea Hotel will tour from 1st October - 5th December 2013.

Over 70 minutes Earthfall reveals the poetry and tragicomic events from the iconic Chelsea Hotel and its place in contemporary culture, performed through dynamic dance, live music and film. The production blazes a trail from Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe to Dylan Thomas and Tennessee Williams; several stories, true and false, interplay through a voyeuristic discovery of the inhabitant's lives, loves and longings.

Jessica Cohen, co-artistic director commented:

"Our production is a crazy mixture of poetic movement, sex, violence, rock and roll, anger, companionship, cowboys and ghosts. It blends truth with lies, reality with fantasy. Projected images layer in narrative, environment and story fragments told directly to camera. We found an essence of the place and a spirit of those who inhabited it; slowly our 'Chelsea Hotel' emerged as our story."

Alongside the show Earthfall is hosting a series of participatory workshops for different groups plus a range of workshops. To find out more please visit www.earthfall.org.uk

To see photos and videos of the production please visit www.chelseahotel.org.uk

As well as creating Chelsea Hotel, Earthfall, Coreo Cymru and Urban Reaction Research Lab are co- producing a 360 dome film, 'Pal O' Me Heart' as part of the Dance Dome project, to be released in summer 2013. 'Pal O' Me Heart' is the familiar story of two Irish Boys, set during the Easter Rising. This adaptation was filmed on location on the remote Pembrokeshire coastline with two dancers performing in and out of the water. It will premiere in Edinburgh in August 2013 before touring into dome festivals across the UK and mainland Europe. To book Dance Dome tickets please visit www.edfringe.com/whats-on/dance-and-physical-theatre/dance-dome

AUTUMN TOUR 2013

Artistic Director: Jessica Cohen, Jim Ennis

Cast: Rosalind Brooks, Sebastian Languenuer, Alex Marshall Parsons, Jessica Haener

Designer: Mike Brooks

Musicians: Frank Naughton, Sion Orgon, Felix Otaola

TOUR DATES:

Galeri, Caernarfon

Tuesday 1st October, 8:00pm
www.galericaernarfon.com / 01286 685222

Wales Millennium Centre
Tuesday and Wednesday 29th- 30th October, 8:00pm

www.wmc.org.uk / 02920 636464

Riverfront Theatre and Arts Centre, Newport

Thursday 3rd October, 7:30pm
www.newport.gov.uk/theriverfront / 01633 656757

Unity Theatre, Liverpool

Friday and Saturday 1st- 2nd November, 8:00pm

www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk / 0844 873 2888

Lincoln Drill Hall, Lincoln

Tuesday 8th October, 8:00pm
www.lincolndrillhall.com / 01522 873894

Riverside Studios, London

Tuesday 5th - Saturday 16th November, 7:45pm

www.riversidestudios.co.uk / 0208 237 1111

South Holland Centre, Spalding

Thursday 10th October, 7:30pm
www.southhollandcentre.co.uk / 01775 764777

The Lowry, Salford

Tuesday and Wednesday 19th-20th November,7:00pm

www.thelowry.co.uk / 0843 208 6000

Peninsula Arts, Plymouth

Wednesday 16th October, 8:00pm
www.plymouth.ac.uk / 01752 585050

The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University

Tuesday 26th November, 8:00pm

www.edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre / 01695 584480

Gulbenkian, Canterbury

Friday 18th October, 7.30pm
www.kent.ac.uk/gulbenkian / 01227 769075

Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury

Thursday 28th November, 8:00pm

www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk / 01722 321744

Bath Spa Live, Bath

Monday 21st October, 8.00pm
www.bathspampa.com/bathspalive / 01225 463362

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth

Tuesday 3rd December, 8:00pm
www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk / 01970 623232

Artrix Arts Centre, Bromsgrove

Wednesday 23rd October, 8:00pm
http://www.artrix.co.uk / 01527 577330

Bournemouth Pavilion, Bournemouth

Thursday 5th December, 8:00pm
www.bic.co.uk / 0844 576 3000

Pegasus Theatre, Oxford

Friday 25th October, 8:00pm
www.pegasustheatre.org.uk / 01865 812150

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Websites: www.chelseahotel.org.uk / www.earthfall.org.uk

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