“Last night I saw the most exciting, troubling, cathartic, mesmeric performance I’ve seen in England for a decade.Up the hill, round the corner, in a barely funded old chapel… hosted by the wonderful Wainsgate Dances. What hope…”
Richard Gregory
Low-tech and stripped back; performances at Wainsgate are up-close and intimate live encounters.
Wainsgate has become known as a venue for outstanding experimental performance, and a keen audience from the local area and further afield, continues to grow around the programme.
“Performing at Wainsgate Chapel has reminded me how contemporary dance performance can motivate a diverse group of people to work collectively and with confidence, towards a shared event which blesses people with a momentary sense that this is the place to be, and these are the people to be with.”
Jonathan Burrows – Choreographer - performer
Making people welcome is important to us. Complex ideas and challenging work are made approachable by cultivating an open, warm and hospitable environment.
A performance at Wainsgate is a special event.
From the journey through the hills along country lanes to get to this historic and somewhat crumbling building, with its grass-roots homely feel; to the exceptional quality of the work itself, and the lively conversation and buzzing atmosphere in our pop-up bar after the show.
