Sky: Katie Duck & Sharon Smith (dancers), Ben Roberts (cello) and Andy Williamson (saxes)

Sky: Katie Duck & Sharon Smith (dancers), Ben Roberts (cello) and Andy Williamson (saxes)

Date/Time
Sunday 13 July 2025
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Ashburton Arts Centre

Categories
Dance


Book here now: £15 full price • £10 or £7 if you prefer – please pay what you can*

A one hour(ish) performance without an interval.
Katie Duck has been a professional performer and maker since the early 1970s.
She describes herself as an “experimental dance artist” and she’s been an influential figure in how she placed improvisation as an intricate element in composition and performance, inspiring generations of dancers, musicians, singers and actors. Her performances are a practice of presence in a sound-driven space with, as she says, “flirtation to engage publics”.
She was based at Dartington from 1987 – 1990, and is now living in Amsterdam.
In 2024, Amsterdam based Katie Duck, brought to the Ashburton Arts Centre an improvisation setting with the film and title, “The Day After”, in collaboration with local musicians Andy Williamson and Ben Roberts.
In 2025, Katie will be reunited with Andy and Ben, alongside her colleague and best friend Sharon Smith. Katie and Sharon have been doing real-time multidisciplinary collaborations since the early 90s. Originally from England, Sharon has been based in Amsterdam and Berlin, and is now based in Holberton, where she is running the Mildmay pub, with her partner chef, Ian.
“Sky” is a film with an improvisation setting for multidisciplinary live art interactions.
Performers: Katie Duck & Sharon Smith: movement and text
Andy Williamson: saxophones, bass clarinet, piano
Ben Roberts: cello

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