Bodycurrents Dance Partnership

Neptune's Revelry, Sunday 25 April

The Bodycurrents project is funded by the Scottish Arts Council Inspire Fund, Eden Court, The Highland Council, plan B Dance company, Highland and Cairngorm Leader and The Robertson Trust.

Take part in a unique dance experience in the Scottish Highlands...

What is Bodycurrents? Bodycurrents is a dance-based series of spectacular performance and development programmes that will inspire those participating in it and those who see it, to maintain and extend an interest in dance. This new dance project will catalyse and coordinate dance performances and development programmes in four Highland communities using a wide range of stimulating and imaginative opportunities.

The Highland Communities Involved

The four Highland communities involved in the Bodycurrents project are:

• Caithness
• Skye & Lochalsh
• Badenoch & Strathspey
• Lochaber

Each area will host a team of two Dance Catalysts, specialising in community dance, for a nine month residency. The Dance Catalysts, in consultation with the local communities, will develop a series of regular classes, workshops and training events in dance that will attract and appeal to a wide range of interests, ages and abilities and will be inclusive at all levels.

The first six months of each residency culminates in a spectacular outdoor dance performance event featuring performances by community and social groups that have evolved during the project.

WATER is the theme of Bodycurrents... Our experience of it, awareness of it, and reliance on it in many different ways; how individuals and communities use water, react to it and think about it in economic, social, environmental and cultural terms. Water has always been a shaping force, a means of transport, a source of food and power.

Neptune's Revelry at Eden Court, 25 April 2010

Neptune's Revelry is an outdoor carnival event for all the family, featuring performers from the local community, professional entertainers and you - the audience! Go along to this unique event to see some existing work, specially choreographed by the Bodycurrents Dance artists and community participants during the project in Lochaber.

There will be two performances:
1st performance; 14.00 - 16.00 (gate opens at 13.30)
2nd performance; 19.00 - 21.00 (gate opens at 18.30)

Tickets are £5/£3 concessions.
To book, contact the Eden Court Theatre box office on 01463 234 234.

Please dress 'colourfully' for the weather and bring your dancing wellies!

Bodycurrents will be deilvered by a new Dance partnership that has been developed specifically for this project. The partnership is lead by Eden Court, and features the performance company, plan B and The Highland Council. For more information, please visit the Bodycurrents website.