Reading Time: 2 minutesA few months ago, if someone asked me about the connection between computing, artificial intelligence, and Manchester, I would have only mentioned the relationship between humans and machines, which is a prominent theme in the Matrix franchise, and the fact that Manchester is where the Manchester Baby, or the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, was created
Reading Time: 2 minutesFRAY is a story of two brothers learning how to navigate reality as they grow up. Using the world of video games as a language to explore what it means to battle monsters and head out on your own Hero’s journey, this energised show fusing hip-hop dance, music and moving visuals aims to teach us that all we ever needed was inside us all along. It’s an electric production, but we know the ending already.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe show chronicles Sylvia's involvement in the Women’s Suffrage movement beginning in 1903 (with a small flashback to childhood) up until 1928 when the The Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act passed - including working class women.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Hip-Hop dance theatre production looking to surface women of colour's experiences and journeys, Born to Exist is the third part of Joseph Toonga’s nationally acclaimed Hip-Hop dance trilogy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBLKDOG is a blend of hip-hop dance and freeform movement, choregraphed by Botis Seva in collaboration with Far From The Norm.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Joseph Toonga who is behind Born to Exist - a Hip-Hop Dance Theatre production that is a response to Joseph’s personal experience of being solely brought up by black women.