Love in Idleness is a dance theatre piece which takes place in a garden. The audience are led around the garden by a cast of six performers, including live musicians. Loosely based around the story and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream; transformation, magic, mischief and love, it is ideal for adults and families. A tour will take place this Summer funded by Grants for the Arts and produced by Yorkshire Dance
Saturday 30th June – Burton Agnes, Driffield
Sunday 1st July – Temple Newsom, Leeds
Saturday 7th July – Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Sunday 8th July – Oakwell Hall, Birstall
Saturday 21st July – Sheffield Botanical Gardens
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Rachel on Love in Idleness:
“The evening began with the audience gathered on the lawn of the stately home drinking elderflower champagne, before being taken on a journey by the performers and musicians, through the formal gardens, into the herb garden and finally outside the garden walls into the wilderness area and wood. I wanted the audience to make the transition with us from the formal, normal ways of being into something more creative, magical and wild as the characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream do. When the audience easily and happily danced with us out under the trees at the end of the evening I was delighted to have given a varied audience the opportunity to engage with dance in a different way by becoming part of it. Having the audience as such an integral part of the performance, meant that something unique and unrepeatable was created with the people who were in that garden on Midsummer’s Night.”
Audience Feedback:
“Mysterious, bizarre, intriguing, brave, simple, sophisticated, professional, magical – a wonderful pot-pourri of arts and gardens.
“It was set up so that by the end the audience had so much become a part of the piece that we happily joined in the dancing, it seemed like the right thing. It totally worked.”
“The cast, band and audience met for the end of the piece in the wilderness wood, and the entire audience danced by candlelight under ancient trees on Midsummer Night. I was captivated, dazzled and intrigued. I was spell bound.”
Love in Idleness from Rachel Dean on Vimeo.
