Of Babies and Men
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Of Babies and Men is a new work for babies aged 4-18 months by Sally Chance Dance. The work makes visible men’s care of and play with babies, exploring personal stories, social myths and cultural practices and evoking the presence of fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, friends and elders in a studio-based phase of collaborative devising.
SCD’s new work for babies aged 4-18 months is in a creative development phase from April 2024 / early 2025.
Of Babies and Men explores what happens in a playful performance space created by four skilled performers - Stephen Noonan, Owen Love, Samuel Matthewman and James Alberts with direction by Sally Chance.
A combination of care and play is a fundamental aspect of SCD’s philosophy of carefully creating encounters between artists and babies. As Fletcher-Watson notes “playing is key to the entire genre of Theatre for Early Years” (2016). Of Babies and Men will draw on types of play from competitive to imaginative ways of playing, making them visible to the babies through the performance images and available to them to take part in as co-players.
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