Stuff and Nonsense in Portsmouth

Mervyn Peake's nonsense poetry will form part of an evening comedy performance at Portsmouth's Guildhall tomorrow night, 28th January 2015. This has been organised by Max Olesker and it will be a fund raising event for research into Parkinson's. 

More information on the Guildhall website.

Dark Arteries

The Rambert Ballet Company has commissioned the first ever brass band dance work to be performed at Sadler's Wells alongside Tredegar Band. 

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The world's first brass band dance work is among a series of original commissions which will form the cornerstone of Britain's national dance company productions in 2015.

Crossover

It has been announced that Rambert Ballet Company will be joined in the week long production at its Sadler's Wells home in London by Tredegar Band, in what has been described as 'a historic crossover of artistic genres'.

It is the first time that a professional dance company and a brass band have collaborated in this way.

Dark Arteries

The work's title, 'Dark Arteries', is a metaphor for Britain's coal mines taken from a poem by Mervyn Peake.

30 years after the Miners' Strike, and one week after the 2015 General Election, 'Dark Arteries' will celebrate the power of the music to sustain communities through times of social and political upheaval.

'Dark Arteries' is to be composed by Gavin Higgins, who wrote 'Velocity', the opening work for this year's 'Last Night of the Proms' at the Royal Albert Hall, and will be choreographed by Rambert's Artistic Director Mark Baldwin.