I'm Rick Mills, management board member of Blue Eyed Soul and computer geek; I've been involved with Blue Eyed Soul since I was introduced to the company by my wife Sonia, who used to dance with them when her health was in better shape.
Today saw a couple of performances of "TAKE; a small dance in the park" as part of the Shift Time festival in Quarry Park in central Shrewsbury - a visually spectacular 30 minute dance piece performed by 3 women dancers and involving breathtaking aerial dance work set around the company's mobile aerial rig (an impressive aluminium tripod dome with all manner of ropes and harnesses attached to it).
The theme of the performance was a history of live outdoor performance in Shrewsbury over a period of 200 years (1809 to 2009); the dancers' costumes reflected this journey through time, with the three dancers wearing period dress at the start of the performance, and gradually changing costume throughout the performance as the show progressed. The performance was accompanied by music and narrative describing both the women through time that the dancers were representing, and the dance moves they were making and the feelings they were experiencing throughout the performance.
The aerial work was stunning, particularly towards the end of the performance, where, freed from the constraints of the restrictive dresses of the 19th century, the dancers were able to move with increasing freedom and velocity.
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