Swinging at the Cotton Club

Swinging at the Cotton Club

Hull Truck Theatre presents Swinging at The Cotton Club.

Take a step back into 1920s & ’30s New York City and through the doors of Harlem’s hottest nightclub, ‘The Cotton Club’!

‘Swinging at The Cotton Club’ is the action-packed show celebrating the music and dance of the Cotton Club – New York’s most celebrated nightclub of the 1920s and ‘30s.

Performances by Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Fats Waller would have had the club swinging – whilst dancers such as Bojangles Robinson and the Nicholas Brothers lit-up the stage with their breathtaking routines.

In the show the exhilarating dance and music of the Cotton Club is recreated by the fabulous Lindy Hop Dance Company, alongside The Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm Orchestra, featuring American vocalist Marlene Hill and compere/vocalist Megs Etherington.

Sub:Version and Surge

SURGE

SURGE gives life to a future human on the bridge between the digital and organic worlds

Four stellar artists collaborate to create a brand-new staged concept album.

An immersive, audio-visual, genre-breaking performance, touring exclusive new music from British music producer ITAL TEK.

Tom Dale brings to life a duet between dancer and animated light in a gripping kinesthetic relationship. A character pushed to their limits to ‘feel’ – to ‘sense’ – to ‘exist’.

Featuring live vocals from the performer Jemima Brown and digital design by Vent Media.

SUB:VERSION

Ten dance sketches: bold and bristling with the urgency of undiluted connection to WEN’s experimental club music.

TDC’s new group piece is an elegant selection of dance work that weaves a hypnotic journey through an array of electronic music sub-genres using WEN’s album EPHEM:ERA –“a sophomore album study on the mercurial warp and weft of modern UK dance music” boomkat

The evolution of both Dance and Electronic Music are inseparable and TOM DALE COMPANY’s new group piece SUB:VERSION takes its inspiration from the weft and warp of these connections.

Using music from WEN’s album Ephem:era, SUB:VERSION is a series of electronic dance studies – an elegant exploration of movement and melody, space and form, full of temporal pauses – exploring the connections between transient and momentary experiences.

The album offers a framework for performers to connect with their bodies and each other – exploring the pleasure of moving to music in a score which evokes rather than dictates. This compulsion to move and connect is crafted by Tom and the dancers adding an experiential layer to the music.

We move through hypnotic club music to gossamer-like melodies through to dissonant and then weightless ambiance collecting together different, distinct moods all explored in the physical form. The result is a core celebration of dance itself: the body, and the limitless possibilities that music can evoke.

Hull Truck Theatre, 18 April 2023

Dirty Corset

Yorkshire in 1687: a company of flea-bitten actors try and fail to live up to their on-stagepersonas. A bawd, a hopeless romantic and a pus-filled buffoon fight impressively for yourattention. A raucous, surreal comedy about desire, the struggle for freedom and queer love.

Using a blend of physical theatre and Restoration theatrical flourishes, award-winning Dirty Corset encapsulates the essence of the 17th century, a sometimes forgotten period, in all of its disgusting glory.

Hull Truck Theatre, 28 April, 2023

Diversity – Supernova Tour

Britain’s most-successful dance group, Diversity, have announced their brand-new UK and Ireland tour, Supernova.

Supernova follows Diversity’s sold-out Connected tour earlier this year, which combined playful, comedic routines with powerful statements on human connectivity. Big, relentless, and energetic, the tour dazzled fans across the UK.

Diversity took the nation by storm when they won the third series of Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 and have since sold out multiple UK and Irish tours, with countless television and live performances. Alongside preparing for their brand-new tour, and in keeping with their progressive, innovative nature, Diversity are currently preparing to launch Diversity Studios, which will offer in person and live streamed dance classes.

Diversity’s illustrious career shows how they continue to innovate, grow, and achieve. Collectively Diversity recently won Virgin Media’s Must-See Moment of 2020 at the British Academy Television Awards for their incredible Britain’s Got Talent routine, watch here.

Strictly Come Dancing The Professionals

This exhilarating show will showcase the exceptional talent of TV’s hugely popular professional dancers, performed within the wonderful world of the BBC show, with its stunning costumes and sparkling sets.

Audiences across the country will enjoy world-class dance, stunning choreography and glamorous costumes, live and up close from 10 talented Strictly Professionals: Dianne Buswell; Vito Coppola; Carlos Gu; Karen Hauer; Neil Jones; Nikita Kuzmin; Gorka Marquez; Luba Mushtuk; Jowita Przystal; and Nancy Xu.

Directed by Strictly’s Creative Director Jason Gilkison, Strictly Come Dancing: The Professionals will surprise and delight audiences with dance and choreography at the highest possible standard.

Don’t miss your chance to see these much-loved dancers coming together to perform in a theatrical ensemble that will simply take your breath away.

The Art of Believing

Experience vibrant and authentic Flamenco music and dance from the spectacular Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company. Their production Art of Believing recently won the prestigious Herald Angel Award and is bursting with truly stunning flamenco music, bringing to Hull the passion and fire of Andalucia.

Art of Believing promises to be a truly memorable performance, bringing a taste of pure Flamenco and outstanding musicianship to The Hull Truck. Vibrant and exciting, this is an unmissable Flamenco experience.

Dada Masilo’s The Sacrifice

South Africa’s award-winning Dada Masilo wowed critics and audiences with her stunning re-imagining of Giselle in 2019. Now back by popular demand, Masilo and her company of incredible dancers return with the UK premiere of The Sacrifice.

Featuring live music on stage, The Sacrifice is inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’, combining the European heritage of this monumental piece of music with the uniquely rhythmic and expressive movements of ‘Tswana’, the traditional dance of Botswana. Rooted in story-telling and healing ritual, Masilo and her dancers deliver an exhilarating performance that will transport you through a journey of emotions.

Rugby League World Cup Cultural Festival: The Power of Performance

Saturday 22 October

Free and open to all

Performances run from 16:00 – 18:00 on a repeating cycle

Trinity Square, Zebedee’s Yard, Queen Victoria Square

The Rugby League World Cup Cultural Festival is an ambitious, inclusive, multidisciplinary festival bringing together audiences for sport and art around the tournament. Taking place in Newcastle, Hull, Leeds and Manchester, the festival will amplify “The Power of Together” and celebrate inclusivity and positive social impact.

A spectacular new outdoor performance brings the atmosphere and passion of the Rugby League out of the stadium and onto the streets. All before kick-off. This specially-commissioned free show, which features dance, music and aerial performance, tells three unique stories about the game and its people, charting how it has evolved from its roots to the sport we see today which inspires such passion in its fans.

Family Dance Workshop w/Live Music

FAMILY DANCE WORKSHOP WITH LIVE MUSIC – MONDAYS – 1 & 15 AUGUST

NO NEED TO BOOK 1.30pm to 2.30pm All ages MAIN GRASS AREA

Vista Festival 2022- Princes Avenue

On Saturday 9th July Hull’s biggest free street festival returns to Prince’s Avenue.

Thousands will be entertained by this year’s headliners Pearl’s Cab Ride, fun fair, art sales, street entertainment, dancing, art installations and not forgetting food from 25 different food establishments.

The festival is organised by the Princes Avenue Community and Traders (PACT) which is a voluntary group set up to promote the local community and businesses. The festival is a celebration of the culture of HU5.

The event features live music from some of the very best local talent in the Hull area showcasing not only well established artists on the Main Stage but providing a platform for upcoming talent on the Acoustic Stage.

There will be Art Installations from local artists displaying and selling their work on the street. There will also be a number of stalls featuring local support groups and as well food and drink, some of the local venues will be offering live entertainment throughout the day.

Aim Higher Charity Ball

You will arrive to be greeted by a red carpet and a drink on arrival. Mingle whilst enjoying a few drinks before you will be seated to enjoy an amazing three course meal, Steve Rimmer a Hull comedian will entertain you, and help host our raffle, once you have eaten the amazing band Turn up the sun who plays all types of genre will get you on to the dance floor finishing off with a disco till 1am.

All proceeds will go to Aim Higher a registered charity who support families in Hull and East Riding affected by Autism/Mental health in children and young people.

We are a self funded charity ran by volunteers and parents of children with autism so your support means the world to us.

‘We Move’ Project

This Spring, Tamar & Jo are delivering a range of free dance classes and workshops for anyone wanting to learn more or improve their dance skills.

Classes for anyone aged 16 and over are available to book at their studio at Shirethorn House in Hull City Centre, and sessions for any age are open at Gipsyville Library and Unity in Community.

The project, which is funded by Hull City Council aims to engage with people through participatory sessions, with a focus on connection, celebration, togetherness, expression and creativity.

All classes are stand-alone sessions and participants can come to as many or as few as they wish.

Nobody: A Dance Circus Adventure

This fast-moving, spellbinding story explores the tension between our inner lives and how we make sense of the world around us with mesmerising choreography and a tale full of twists and turns.

Here Come The Boys

Fresh from wowing audiences and critics alike at the London Palladium, Here Come The Boys is taking this “BIG, SPANGLED, ENERGETIC, NON-STOP DANCE SPECTACULAR” (The Stage) on the road!

Our dance superstars Graziano di Prima, Nadiya Bychkova, Pasha Kovalev and Strictly finalist Karim Zeroual, will be joined by the sensational Nikita Kuzmin.

‘‘A NIGHT OF FABULOUS FUN. A HIGH OCTANE CELEBRATION OF DANCE’’ (Daily Express)

Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo

Dance Consortium presents

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

For almost 50 years, the all-male comedy ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (affectionately known as “The Trocks”) have been delighting audiences of all ages at sell-out performances featuring their fabulous sense of fun and their flawless dance.

Originally from New York, the Trocks are now loved world-wide for their sassy spoofs and hilarious homages to classical ballet, where 16 dancers each transform into two personas, both male and female!

Every performance frivolously froths with tutus and testosterone, blush-pink ballet pumps, fierce false eyelashes and prima ballerina attitude. However, what makes this company extraordinarily special is their immaculate technique and daring physicality, surpassed only by their impeccable comic timing.