Dorchester Arts is a partner in Dorset's Inside Out Festival which returns in September 2012
From freerunners to belly dancers, from majorettes to a nine year old Taekwondo black belt, the week-long residency was a process of learning, developing and sharing skills - followed by intensive rehearsals and a spectacular finale enjoyed by an audience of 2000.
The whole town seemed to be in Maumbury Rings. More than 100 of those taking part in this Cultural Olympiad event were pupils aged 7-17 from Dorchester’s schools - we hope it was an experience they will remember for a long time.
Parklife - Dorchester finale - we’re planning a screning of a longer film later in the year. To all involved - and to the funders, The Arts Council, Dorset County Council, Bournemouth Borough Council, Poole Borough Council, Dorchester Town Council and Dorchester Arts - thank you for an amazing week.
Inside out blog
Inside out website
On a cliff face next to him, giant columns of rock come to life.
The music opens like a monastic chant in an ancient abbey cloister - but as the picture dissolves into a view of massive cogs and gears the sounds change to the mechanical noises of saws and stone cutting.
This is the Rock Charmer - a collaboration between music legend Kimmo Pohjonen and the enchanting live cinema experience of the Paper Cinema. Just as a snake charmer makes the snake reveal himself, Kimmo and Paper Cinema are charming the rocks to reveal their stories and their history in sounds and live animation.
The setting feels Mediterranean - but is in fact Winspit, a magical spot on the Dorset coast near Swanage where Purbeck stone quarrying has created a clifftop amphithatre and series of square fronted caves. The Rock Charmer's pulsating finale
Bournemouth Square
Congregation KMA (UK) curated by Scan (UK)
You are the audience, but you are also a performer. As you stand in Bournemouth Square every evening during Inside Out 2010, a thermal imaging camera high above picks up body heat - and turns your movement into patterns, shapes and colours, projected onto the square and onto a big screen.
Trajets de Ville, Trajets de Vie by Ex Nihilo (France)
Tracking by StopGAP (UK)
11th and 12th September 10am-5pm
Also expect to see familiar town centre locations transformed by thrilling outdoor dance over the weekend, including the English premiere of performances by the remarkable Ex Nihilo, and the highly-entertaining integrated dance company StopGAP.
This is Rêve d’Herbert, by Compagnie des Quidams - part of Dorset's Inside Out 2010 festival of extraordinary events in extraordinary places.
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Over eleven days in September 2007, Inside Out became the largest programme of free outdoor performance ever to take place in the UK's South West, recording over 30,000 attendances. Crowds jammed the streets and open spaces of some of the most magical locations in Dorset to enjoy theatre, dance, acrobatics and pyrotechnics on a spectacular scale. Inside Out returned in September 2008 with a spectacular performance - Veles e Vents launching the cultural Olympiad on the cliffs at Bowleaze, Weymouth (below). The 2010 Festival will be at four locations across Dorset - Bournemouth, Poole, Purbeck and Dorchester.
video clips of the 2007 events:
video clips of the 2007 events:
