Exploring the CREATIVITY of
the MATURE BODY & MIND
Striking Attitudes is a professional dance theatre company making work that celebrates the older dancer and highlights their unique attributes. We are an organisation run by, for and with older people. We offer creative sessions, workshops and performance opportunities to older performers, trained and untrained.
Striking Attitudes considers those over 50 to be an under-represented group without equal opportunities and we strive to change this, believing people of all ages benefit significantly from the creative physical experience and social interaction. Our work extends the quality of life and makes a significant contribution to the concept of positive ageing.
Making work that celebrates the unique attributes of the older dancer – both professional and community.
About
Striking Attitudes is a professional dance theatre company making work that celebrates the older dancer and highlights their unique attributes. We are an organization run by, for, and with older people. We offer creative sessions, workshops, and performance opportunities to older performers, trained and untrained.
Undercover / Cudd
Thu 23 – Sat 25 February
UNDERCOVER is a new, large-scale work from Striking Attitudes. A promenade performance, exhibition and dynamic multimedia presentation of dance, theatre, photography, poetry, video, music and textiles.
Promenade walk-through performance taking place in First Space/ Peilot/ Stiwdio.
UNDERCOVER is a chronicle of our times ¬– a response to the pandemic and climate change, a giant tapestry of stories in Welsh and English. Inspired by the Welsh blanket, the show explores how the ‘known’ has become ‘unknown’, the ‘normal’ now ‘abnormal’. An exploration of how precarious life can be and how the world can turn on its head.
Featuring an incredible line-up of creative practitioners from across Wales including Michal Iwanowski, Iestyn Tyne, Llio James, Dan Swain, Becky Davies and Marega Palser, UNDERCOVER is led by Artistic Director, Caroline Lamb, with Janet Fieldsend, Aleksandra Nikolajev Jones, June Campbell Davies, Geraldine Hurl and Dawns i Bawb.
UNDERCOVER is supported by Arts Council Wales, Chapter and Dawns i Bawb.
Striking Attitudes is a professional dance theatre company making work that celebrates the older dancer and highlights their unique attributes. It’s an organisation run by, for, and with older people. Their work extends the quality of life and makes a significant contribution to the concept of positive ageing.
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Health and Wellbeing
For the last 15 years, Striking Attitudes has done pioneering work promoting the concept of the mature body as a viable and valid one and continues to do so. Striking Attitudes’s focus is to offer creative physical exercises to support older people; to develop their skills and interests and also to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
‘Caroline Lamb’s choreography has always been distinctive. It’s gripping and stylized dance theatre’
David Adams, The Guardian
What Our Participants said
Sally
Thank you so much for my first Striking Attitudes’ experience. I absolutely loved every moment! I love the sessions for the dancing and the creativity of being with others giving so much.
Lynette
I think it’s been brilliant! I’ve really enjoyed the rhythm of it. I really like the balance between what is set and having the freedom to explore. It’s been a lifeline for me.
Janet
It’s been a lovely experience coming back into creativity, meeting people I wouldn’t normally have met and rediscovering my body and the way it moves.
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