FURTHER READING & INFO about WHEN YOU LIGHT A CANDLE:

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CULTURE WARRINGTON INTRODUCING COMPANY CARPI

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WARRINGTON GUARDIAN ARTICLE

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INTERVIEW WITH DANCE CONSORTIA NORTH WEST

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When You Light A Candle, You Also Cast A Shadow

 

 

Hybrid dance theatre with live music

by Company Carpi

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"It's like taking a bath - in art!"

Alice Billen, Candle String Quintet

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"At its core, When You Light A Candle has

the most gorgeous heart"

Adam Holloway, Cheshire Dance

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"Climate celebration, amid climate crisis"

Lancaster Arts

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Created by choreographer Bettina Carpi and composer Gary Lloyd

 

Featuring a specially commissioned poetry cycle

by Costa Award winning writer Mary Talbot

 

Inspired by natural forces, the work is as much a celebration of nature and its resilience as it is a call to awareness about the dangerous state of our climate, our habitat and our planet.

 

The title of the piece is inspired by a quote from the novel

A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

 

 

 

When You Light a Candle... is the first commission of its kind,

and was created in partnership with:

Dance Consortia North West

Lancaster Arts & Culture Warrington

 

With generous additional support from:

Arts Council England, Swiss Cultural Fund UK, Cheshire Dance,

The Arts Centre Edge Hill University 

 

 

First performances:

Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster Arts : 4th November 2021

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery : 25th June 2022

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Company Carpi 2021

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