Alan Lyddiard is on a mission to create, with others, extraordinary performances and build long-lasting relationships with older people, locally, nationally, and internationally.
He retired in 2014 at the age of 65 and went to live in Spain. He was bored after two weeks and decided to set up The Performance Ensemble, a company of older artists, with founding chair, Mandy Stewart. He settled in Leeds and started working at Leeds Playhouse with their older person project, Heydays.
Since then, the company has gone from strength to strength. They are now the first permanent ensemble of older artists regularly funded by Arts Council England.
Alan will be working with people from Nottingham on nottdance as Place, an afternoon of nottdance past, present and future, woven together through exhibition, live performance and conversation.
2025festival.nottdance.com/event/nottdance-as-place/
For more information on their work, visit theperformanceensemble.com
Lucy Suggate is a dance artist based in Yorkshire, working in performance, making, education, dramaturgy, and mentoring. Her work highlights how movement – dance – choreography can respond to the ongoing age of crisis and prolonged uncertainty by focusing on embodied practices and the physical and perceptual shifts that occur when engaged in long-term moving and thinking.
Visit lucysuggate.com
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Music by Tom Harris listeningspace.xyz/
Edited by Steve Woodward at podcastingeditor.com
Fabric is an Arts Council England, National Portfolio Organisation.
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