Plastic fever
Animated Summer 2001. 'Never mind the plastic - this was the real thing! Punching the air, shouting and metaphorically grabbing the audience by the neck until their eyes popped out in a piece about clubbin', pullin' and gettin' down. (1) The iconic status of clubbing in popular culture can be resistant to artistic engagement. Taking contemporary dance theatre and all its obscurities to a 10pm-2am beer-swilling club on Eastbourne Pier is a risk for any company and almost certainly a challenge to its new audience.
Maxine Doyle, her company First Person, along with young people from Generation Arts Project and Park Sixth Form College spent six gruelling days in Atlantis actively confronting this. Here she explains how a vibrant partnership with South East Touring Agency and Eastbourne Borough Council broke barriers and gave the work a resonance beyond its theatrical origins
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