CAPTIVE :- Preston Flag Market - 12pm -4pm - 10/8/19

CAPTIVE :- Preston Flag Market - 12pm -4pm - 10/8/19

Jul, 14 2019


~Imagine you’ve boarded  a plane with your mates within hours of landing  on a tropical island. Disaster strikes though and the plane is heading into the sea. Thankfully though, you and your mates have been equipped with specialised training to know how to deal with a crisis. You’re all prepared to escape whilst leaving the remaining passengers… CAPTIVE.

What you’re about to see on Saturday 10th August 2019 are four experienced dancers who will perform a spellbinding set of dance, acrobatics and aerial work inside a large cage.

Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem The Panther, this edge-of-your-seat, 28-minute performance, explores themes of captivity. Trapped, disorientated and shaken, the performers use their skill and instinct to survive in an emotionally charged environment.

CAPTIVE will take place between the hours of 12pm -4pm on Preston’s Flag Market. Admission is completely free and for more information you may wish to visit the following website address:- www.motionhouse.co.uk/production/captive/

In addition, Ramshacklicious will  be arriving in a cloud of raucous brass-heavy music, driving their home-made, water-spurting, flaming and smoking battle-church.

They deliver work that is accessible and yet subversive, presenting performances that are surprisingly complex and skilled in the following six areas :-

  • Live music
  • Physical theatre
  • Clown
  • Puppetry
  • Pyrotechnics
  • Innovative design.

Here is the complete programme in full :-

  • 12:30pm - Captive (30 mins)
  • 1:10pm - Band at the end of the world (50 mins)
  • 2pm - Blue Moose Dance Company (15 mins)
  • 2:20pm - Captive (30 mins)
  • 3pm - Band at the end of the world (50 mins)
  • 3:50pm - End

Captive premiered on 25 May 2013, Salisbury Festival, Kent, UK and has been touring ever since, visiting numerous European festivals as well as North Africa and the USA.

Now, six years later Preston are about to experience a highly  intense  and riveting dance performance that will have the audience transfixed from start to finish.

Summer Saturdays
 This event is one of many taking place in Preston this Summer. It started on 1st June and will conclude 31st August. Visit the ccg website each week for the latest and greatest events coming to Preston’s city centre.

Don't miss this captivating performance...

  • CAPTIVE
  •  Saturday 10 August 2019
  •  12:00pm - 4:00pm
  •  Flag Market, Cheapside, Preston

^Alex Ashworth