WA’s STEPS Youth Dance Company is celebrating its 25th anniversary with its biggest project yet, Fights and Flights. The cast involves 65 dancers, the youngest just 7 years old. The cast also involves five professional dancers – STEPS alumni, now working around the world. These include Belgian-based James O’Hara (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui) and UK-based Sofie Burgoyne (Frantic Assembly and the Henri Oguike Company). Supporting this massive cast is a creative team of ten, including choreographers, designers and a kung fu specialist!
To help fund this huge work, STEPS has launched a Pozible campaign. Wiith various fun rewards on offer, including tempters like season posters, company t-shirts, a peek behind the scenes, workshops for young people, and, of course, tickets to see the show, the campaign aims to raise $5000 towards production costs.
Directed by STEPS’ artistic director, Alice Lee Holland, Fights and Flights will fuse dance, theatre and kung fu to celebrate life - the incredible battles and immense achievements that make it rich and satisfying. Acknowledging the notion that difficult fights may lead to beautiful flights, Fights and Flights will weave together stories of the deepest darkness and the brightest light. The performers will bring to life a beautiful, terrifying and thrilling roller coaster ride of flights and fights, their intimate truths and epic universalities.
For more information about the Pozible campaign click here
Flights and Flights plays the State Theatre Centre, May 10 and 11. Bookings/more info: here