Practice is one of a series of evenings offering a platform for testing new and innovative contemporary performance and dance in front of a live audience. Four specially selected performers and companies from across the UK present extracts of work-in-progress, offering the chance to see new work in the making. Practice is a partnership project with Salisbury Arts Centre.

Practice - 25th Feb, 7.30pm

ShadyJane

ShadyJane are thrilled to assist Annie Mitford (often referred to as ‘The Other Mitford’), on her mission to get back in touch with her famous sisters. Although she has little claim to the spotlight in comparison to her controversial siblings, family is family and she feels its time to let bygones be bygones. Join Annie for a good old catch up over a cuppa, in the hope that seven sisters can patch things up.

A Few Minutes with a Mitford is an attempt to get to the bottom of their own, and the nation’s fascination with the Mitford sisters.

Karla Shacklock

The hysteric highs, agonizing lows and safe plateaus of the years 1980 to 2011 have been pickled in glass jars.

Award-winning choreographer and performer Karla Shacklock allows them to fall, seep and explode into an ever changing landscape, in this emotionally charged, painfully honest, dance theatre solo.

As Karla physically, and mentally, ricochets through the years in a highly visual mesh of experiences, we can all take time to ponder our own journey and join with her in the catharsis.

‘wonderfully warm, extremely funny and incredibly moving’ (Jan Winters, Circomedia)

UDIFY

Udifydance Company presents “And When We Move…”

This up-and-coming all male dance company presents a new work by Artistic Director Christopher Reynolds and invites you to finish the sentence, whatever that may be...

Following their debut tour 4 Men:Move, Christopher Reynolds pays homage to the company's style of exciting floor work infused with the creation of a dynamic vocabulary.

Udifydance Company offer a fresh take on the effect social networking has on our choices and decisions. To make the work, they actively sought input through the company's Facebook page, asking followers to finish off the sentence,

"And when we move …".

'Harmonious, Skilful and Precise' – Hofesh Shechter