Name: Dancing, Talking, Taboo!
Start: 2021-10-16T15:00:00+01:00
Location: St Pancras Church and Gardens

Dancing, Talking, Taboo!

Local, global, inspiring - Bloomsbury Festival is a unique event created with over 100 partners in this vibrant cultural quarter.  For ten days in October, the streets, parks, museums, galleries, laboratories and public and private buildings of Bloomsbury will host up to 150 original events which attract audiences from across London and beyond.A hotbed of creativity and pioneering development, Bloomsbury also has one of the youngest and most diverse residential populations in the country. Bloomsbury Festival acts as a catalyst bringing together the area's artists, scientists and residents to explore arts and ideas through the prism of an annual theme.Outside the Festival event, the organisation delivers community engagement and arts development projects across the year. These include it’s pioneering project, Festival in a Box, which takes artists into the homes of people living with dementia to provide life enhancing and joyful cultural experiences.Above all, Bloomsbury Festival aims to be enlivening, engaging, entertaining, and fun!Bloomsbury Festival is a charity. Find out how you can support us.

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An opportunity to be thrilled and stimulated by taboo stories and  dance.

St Pancras Church and Gardens

How does a nation tell its history? We are used to traditional, accepted narratives but what happens when you ask the woman in the street -Where did your family come from? What was the key moment of your life that changed you? What is it like being an outsider in England?A Roma talks of being attacked on the English street.A French woman remembers stuffing her fists in her mouth, as a baby, as she is hidden from the Nazis.A white working class northerner remembers being raped at seven years old by her father.A Kurdish refugee escapes a Turkish jail but finds that her memories follow her to London.An African asylum- seeker has trouble learning English because of her trauma.A Chinese woman escapes domestic violence through her love of dance.Pascal Theatre Company has been interviewing women whose voices are usually not heard. These have been edited to create dynamic short scripts online. Stories will be set to new choreography by students from The Place Dance Theatre and premiered at the Bloomsbury Festival.

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