Evaluation report for highly-successful R&D project in Thanet last summer. This indicates the level of interest and need for the sort of work we deliver, combining high-quality professional practice with dedicated and innovative community engagement.

May the dance’s voice preserves its importance: Festival DanceKiosk presents for the seventh time international artists at the theater Hamburger Sprechwerk “(...) The young choreographer Rachel Birch-Lawson from London, acclaimed guest by DanceKiosk two years before, shows with her Duet “Frugal Feasts” that she has consequently developed and improved her radical physical style. The graceful dancer and her tall partner Khyle Eccles meld in a kind of creature which devours everything. It is a symbiotically fight-dance, brutal, tenderly, eager. In the diversity of its emotions it develops special forms and dynamics. Under elaborated light the dancers understand to catch audiences attention and drive it again and again to new details of their extremely complex and virtuoso dance act. (...)” - Die Welt – 15.07.2011 Two dancers from England take one’s breath away “(...) The issue of death and love provides contrast with the wholehearted symbiotic duo “Frugal Feasts” by Rachel Birch-Lawson and Khyle Eccles. Clamped as in combat or sexual intercourse, they roll over the floor, slide into one another, print, or wear down themselves. Everyone is alternately the victim and perpetrator, until the woman lies lifeless in the arms of the man. The dancers transmission internal conflicts in...

Description of the project 'INSPIRE" Leading through Culture, part of the Kent Olympic Legacy Schools Programme. We are delivering this in Thanet. Work from the year-long project by local young people will be showcased at the festival.