Humans Move, a disabled-led dance theatre company, will present Let Life Dance across Wales this June.
The show looks at individual and collective life experiences. The dancers explore the experience of becoming disconnected from family and friends and support networks, going through personal struggles of trying to fit in and being unable to connect to a group and feel at home.
The Artistic Director of Humans Move and director of Let Life Dance is choreographer Jessie Brett, whose work has been performed at Hijinx’s Unity Festival, and she has also worked internationally, including in Ethiopia with Adunya Dance Company, Meseret Yirga and Destino Dance Company.
She said, “I set up Humans Move as I believe dance with casts of disabled and non-disabled dancers needed to have a space in Wales in flourish and grow.“
Let Life Dance includes a cast of five disabled and non-disabled dancers including Down's syndrome dancers Justin Melluish (Hijinx and Frantic Assembly’s Into the Light and more recently S4C and BBC Wales TV drama’s Hidden / Craith), Giverney Hâf Blomeley (Rocking Horse Media Henry House TV pilot, Cwmni Open at Theatr Clwyd and North Wales Phoenix Theatre Company's The Crucible), Laura Moy (Nofit State, National Theatre Wales and Pirates of the Carabina), Adi Detamo (Frantic Assembly, Theatre-Rites and Breaking Convention) and Indigo Tartan (Jo Fong’s How Shall We Begin Again, Zosia Jo’s Fabulous Animals and AFON (Deep Listening) with Maynard Abercych).
Let Life Dance will head out across Wales to Theatr Brycheiniog in Brecon (18 & 19 June), The Dance House at Wales Millennium Centre, in Cardiff Bay (21 June), Torch Theatre in Milford Haven (24 June) and Riverfront in Newport (28 June).