DIY Nights - Perception Questions & Falling Down

About the Night:

Can you taste emotions? See sounds?

Zoe invites us into a synaesthetic experience of life, in a new interactive performance blending dance, sound, and theatre: Perception Questions.

The show plays at unmasking the weird perks and hurdles of a neurodivergent experience, alongside the wonder and mysteries of how we each perceive the world.

(Synaesthesia: a neurodivergent trait where stimulating one sense automatically and involuntarily triggers an experience in another.)

Falling Down

One performer dances and falls, pleads and protests, shouts and spirals. Through hedonistic movement, spoken text and live music, Falling Down explores our shifting relationship with the systems and institutions that shape our lives, in a performance that is both funny and unsettling.

About the Artists:

Zoë Solomons is a dance artist and performer based in Sussex, whose work moves between interactive live performance, dance film, and collaboration with nature, musicians and filmmakers. Her practice is shaped by years spent living across Latin America and mainland Europe, alongside a training background in improvisation, tango, Axis Syllabus, and contemporary dance.

Lewys Holt is a Welsh-Canadian choreographer, performer and teacher based in Leeds. Their work combines choreography, improvisation, theatre and comedy to create accessible, formally ambitious performances. They are Artistic Director of perfectly serviceable and co-founder of Roadhouse, an artist-led platform for improvised performance.

Accessibility:

Please note, we are on the second floor of a warehouse building, accessed by a staircase only. We regret that we cannot currently adequately support wheelchair users and those for whom stairs are a barrier.

We are committed to removing other barriers to access. If you would like to talk to us about your access needs, please contact: frances@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk. Read more about our commitments to anti-ableism as part of our Artist Community Culture Document

About DIY Nights:

DIY Nights are CDS’s performance programme created in the spirit of grassroots, low stakes performance making and sharing.

Anyone can apply to run a DIY Night, and CDS programmes them on a rolling basis for artists looking for a way to try out new ideas with low financial risk.

If you are interested in running your own night, you can learn more and apply here.