October 2009 – Nottingham
Nottingham played host to a wealth of artistic talent at their Hatch Abroad event on Nottingham’s Broad Street. SHRUG performed some new devised & durational pieces to the onlooking crowds.
Wirksworth Festival, Art & Architecture Trail 12 -13 September 2009
5 SHRUG Ladies set out on a fantastic weekend trip to Wirksworth festival. They were ready and prepared to present their newly devised performance piece as part of the ‘What is SHRUG’ research project. The piece included 3 sections entitled ‘SHRUG Tea Dance’, ‘Day at The Beach’ and ‘Sailor SHRUG Hand Jive’. The setting was superb; Wirksworth truly is a village of extreme beauty and quant character, which suited the SHRUG Ladies to a tee!! The SHRUG Ladies performed their piece at various locations on the festival trail including the station, the church yard, a bench on the square and the farm as well as doing their usual walk about meet and greet. There were so many amazing photo opportunities, not to mention the awesome new costumes well done our new SHRUG Lady Helen!!!!!
August 2009, Dance 4 studio, Nottingham.
The Ladies spent their first day of studio based research as part of the ‘What is SHRUG’ project devising a piece of choreographed movement. The workshop was led by Zoo Indigo’s Rosie Garton and provided some fantastic new ideas to develop the performance work of the SHRUG Ladies.
Thanks Rosie!! xxxx
Feb 2007 – Clipper event with Dance 4, Nottingham
SHRUG decked out their very own cave with all things SHRUG then invited their audience to experience an intimate 5-minute, 2 on 2 performance, making and serving pancakes. This was performed in both Nottingham and Leicester.
Sept 2004 – Leicester ‘Emergency’ Night at The ‘Y’ Theatre
The SHRUG Ladies set out on their second ever gig to the city of Leicester with their new friend Penny. The Ladies developed a new version of their theatre performance ‘Tea 4 Two’ along side a mini exhibition of the days city ‘Happenings’.
June 2004 – Scratch night at Leeds Metropolitan Studio Theatre
SHRUG’s first performace of ‘Tea 4 Two’, one of our only traditional theatre pieces to date.
