Phantasia – The Mount Without

Corali Dance Company comes to The Mount Without this November with Phantasia.

It features two new performance works: Daisy Dreams and Mannequin Dreams.

Both pieces explore the relationship between movement and sound-making.

One piece is a dream, the other a nightmare.

Daisy Dreams is is told by a cast of eight dancers. Inspired by painter Mark Beldan’s flower works, it exists at the meeting point of image, movement and sound.

It’s been created in collaboration with musician Matt Webb.

Toying with sentimentality, Daisy Dreams creates an atmosphere of almost impossible dreaminess that is both joyful and absurd.

Mannequin Dreams

“You are number 111 in the operating system. Please hold. Your call is important to us. Hello. We are a new civilisation. We move backwards and spin in circles. A memory once there now lost, a memory where I was somebody different; someone who wasn’t abstract.”

This performance piece was inspired by Corali dancer Jackie Ryan’s idea to work with mannequins.

Mannequin Dreams creates a surreal, almost horror-film atmosphere.

Nine dancers create a new reality based on memories of a previous world and what it was to be human.

Corali Dance Company is an inclusive dance company that celebrates the creativity, talent and individuality of people with learning disabilities.