Ekleido Live Dance & Residency
October 25 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Professional dance company Ekleido are undertaking a one-week residency in Shepton Mallet in mid-October. They will be adapting two of their breathtaking performances that incorporate voguing, bonebreaking and threading club/street dance styles and that are usually performed in major dance venues, ready to undertake a national rural venue tour next year under the Rural Touring Dance Initiative. Shepton Mallet’s Let’s Buy the Amulet and Make The Sunshine organisations joined forces and are excited to be co-ordinating the residency together with Take Art – Somerset’s rural touring charity. The residency will include some community engagement activity at Create@#8 with local groups and public events finishing with a full performance in Croscombe Village Hall on Saturday 25th October.
Join creative duo Ekleido for a mesmerising dance experience featuring original music by world-renowned electronic musician Floating Points. Immerse yourself in a spellbinding display of impressive acrobatics, bodily contortions, dazzling costumes and spectacular lights. Ekleido’s club-inspired magic will make this a night to remember!
Opening the programme is Ekleido’s critically acclaimed Splice in which two dancers find the balance between limitation and possibility to solve a physical puzzle.
Completing the evening is Rorschach, a trio that reimagines the iconic Rorschach inkblot test. In this work, we encounter a future society where individuals are subjected to a mandatory Rorschach trial—a journey of self-revelation and survival where participants confront psychological endurance, moral compass, and physical limitations.
Ekleido is a choreographic duo made up of Hannah Ekholm and Faye Stoeser choreographing for live performance and film. They have both individually had extensive dance careers within the contemporary dance world, commercial industry and underground club dance scenes, often crossing paths with each other on projects including Rambert, Years & Years and within The Ballroom Scene.
Ekleido’s work has been performed in venues and festivals including: Sadler’s Wells Breakin’ Convention, Glastonbury Festival, Latitude Festival, The Place, Ministry of Sound Ballet Nights, and Fairfield Halls. Commercial credits include: Saul Nash, Marc Jacobs, Maison Margiela, NIKE, RAYE, British Vogue, Daniel Avery, La Roux.
To prepare for their main dance performance, Ekleido are holding a residency at Create@#8, Shepton Mallet. Local people are invited to take part through a FREE dance workshop for ages 10 to 19 on Monday 20th and a FREE drop-in mini performance on Wednesday 22nd.
Free Dance Workshop for ages 10 to 19
Monday 20th October 4pm to 6pm
at Create@#8
sign up here:
https://fb.me/e/615s5O8SA
Mini performance with Q&A
Wednesday 22nd October 4pm to 5pm
at Create@#8
no need to book, just turn up
Dance Experience – Crosscombe Village Hall
Saturday 25th October 7pm
Buy tickets here:
https://takeart.org/event/splice-rorschach-ekleido
Videos and reviews here:
https://theplace.org.uk/events/autumn-24-ekleido-dance-company
Ekleido website here:
https://www.ekleido.co.uk