TOURING THROUGHOUT SOUTH EAST ENGLAND FROM 13 AUGUST TO 10 SEPTEMBER 2024
Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, in partnership with Farnham Maltings, is delighted to announce the return of Doorstep Duets, touring to communities across the South-East this summer from 13 August to 10 September 2024.
Now in its fourth year, Doorstep Duets offers free opportunities for people to enjoy world-class performance in their local neighbourhood, on their street, in local parks, and through community-based organisations, bringing the joy and wonder of dance to all and making dance more accessible to everyone.
This year, Hum, has been created by choreographer and movement director Anjali Mehrawith original music by Grammy nominated vocalist and composer Luke Brady. Anjali Mehra joined New Adventures in 1999 and has performed with the company in Play without Words, The Red Shoes, Swan Lake, Cinderella, and Nutcracker! Anjali happily hung up her dancing shoes to focus on her career in choreography and movement direction in 2019.
Just as the actions of the hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world, are essential to life in the towering rainforest, in Hum one small gesture of kindness to a stranger ripples out to create a community for those who need it most. Hum features New Adventures dancersAnna Maria de Freitas, Luke Murphy, Holly Saw, Molly Shaw-Downie, Xavier Andriambolanoro SotiyaandMami Tomotani.
This year, Doorstep Duets will visit care homes, youth clubs, libraries, children’s hospices, a men's mental health group in Farnham and The Turner Gallery in Margate, to name just a few. In addition, Doorstep Duets will be livestreamed for the first time, taking the production to doorsteps all over the world.
Bringing dance to people that would not normally experience theatre is hugely important and Doorstep Duets is doing incredible things for many communities who, for a variety of reasons, would not otherwise be able to see live dance.
Anjali Mehra, Choreographer and Movement Director
New Adventures is thrilled to be working with its partners: Farnham Maltings, ARK Cliftonville, Creative Arts East, Future Foundry, Marlowe Theatre Canterbury, Mercury Theatre Colchester, Surrey Libraries and The Alex Faversham.
