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Portrait of Hannah Sampson from The Awakening.

Hannah on The Awakening

Hannah reflects on the journey of The Awakening and performing at The Funky Llama festival in June...

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Chris Pavia and some of the cast of The Awakening, staring moodily into the camera.

Monday Musings with AD | The Awakening

In our series of Artistic Director blogs, this Monday brings you The Awakening and behind the scenes of being a choregorapher.

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Hannah dancing outside in front of a tall building with large windows. She lifts one arm overhead and looks up towards her hand.

ISTD Springboard | Hannah's reflections

We hear from Hannah as she talks about her experience of teaching rep from The Awakening as part of an ISTD Springboard workshop at Urdang Academy in April.

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Chris, dressed in a red t-shirt, is dancing in a studio

Chris' Choreography Inspiration

Chris has been creating choreographic tasks to inspire Guildford Youth Company for their upcoming performance at our Winter Platform.

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Chris Pavia and some of the cast of The Awakening, staring moodily into the camera.

Chris' thoughts on The Awakening

Chris shares his experiences choreographing The Awakening and what he has learnt from the whole process.

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Portrait of Sho Shibata

Why we made The Awakening | Part 2

Our Company Producer Sho Shibata gives his insight into producing The Awakening, which was the first touring dance production ever to be made by learning disabled choreographer.

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Amy and Hannah from the Awakening cast in an intricate duet of hands.

Why we made The Awakening | Part 1

Prior to the London premiere of Chris’ new outdoor work at Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, Company Producer Sho Shibata talks about what makes Chris’ work so appealing (Part 1 of a 2 Part blog).

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Nadenh Poan and Hannah Sampson in The Awakening

Chris on the creation of The Awakening

Our learning disabled dance artist Chris Pavia has done a quick Q&A about his inspiration behind our new outdoor production The Awakening.

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Nadenh in The Awakening

Your Reaction | The Awakening premiere (16 May)

Your thoughts on the UK premiere of The Awakening at the Integrated Dance Summit, Pavilion Dance South West.

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Farnham
Surrey, GU9 7QR
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