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Laura Dannequin

Hardy Animal

Hardy Animal

Sunday 1st May, 2016

3:30 pm

£ 10

Y Tabernacl

All ages

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“Entirely blown away by it. Hardy Animal is a spoken word and dance piece about a woman dealing with and working through her chronic back pain. I know. I know how it sounds. But it is entirely excellent. Its defiant and angry and sad and funny and beautiful, really beautiful and brave and just so very very good indeed”Daniel Kitson

 A tender solo that looks at chronic pain and human resilience, Hardy Animal is a goodbye letter to a former self and an ode to dance. Concerned with the human body and its failings, it tells of a dancer’s journey into immobility. Interweaving text and movement, it retraces a brutal journey of loss, and hope, and looks at our need to create meaning in a baffling world.

 “An invisible dance, a broken dance, a dance that walks a tightrope strung up across two huge mountains, a dance without a safety net. A dance that isn’t a dance, a generous dance, a fucking fuck you of a dance. A dance that looks you in the eye and says ‘you can’t fix this’.”James Stenhouse of Action Hero

60mins

14+

Written, created & performed by Laura Dannequin.Creative Advisor: Dan CanhamCreated with support from The Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England, Theatre Bristol and Bristol Old Vic Ferment; part of Aerowaves Twenty 2016.

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