Richard Chappell Dance presents the company’s compelling first full length work, At the end we begin. Using T.S. Eliot’s classic series Four Quartets as a point of departure, each poem is represented through four arresting and emotionally-fuelled quartets of dance.
At the end we begin inhabits the derelict, sensitive and powerful landscape of Eliot’s poetry and questions how time’s circular nature affects our understanding of ourselves. The work takes four young individuals from a place of being lost to a state of empowerment and acceptance where they have found their own voice by journeying through Eliot’s text. Whilst combining Chappell’s own distinguishable blend of classical ballet, martial arts, improvisation and contact work with three other highly-skilled performers, At the end we begin dives into each performer’s unique and diverse skills with a rich palette of qualities.
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