Explosive Narrative Driven By Passionate Salsa

The Wedding Dance has been described as “West Side Story meets Dangerous Liaisons” – a passionate love story with dance and music, where the movement and energy of salsa drives a fiery and explosive narrative. Set in the intense, hot environment of salsa dance clubs and the sensual surroundings of life in Havana, it is a seductive story of aspiration and betrayal. Cuban immigrant Jose is a modern Don Juan and magnificent dancer. Arriving in London, he exploits his talent for teaching the most passionate dance of them all – the salsa. But the temptation of an irresistible challenge proves to be one seduction too far… Nitro Theatre’s production, with sensational salsa choreography by Debra Michaels, can be seen at the Exeter Northcott tonight and tomorrow.

Box Office: 01392 493493

Royal patron at concert

ATAR Arad will perform his own composition, a sonata for solo viola, when the Duke of Kent, patron of the acclaimed International Musicians Seminar, attends a concert by some of the world’s top musicians at the Marazion Community Centre tomorrow at 7.30pm. Mr Arad is an Israeli violist and composer who now lives in the United States. The concert is part of the IMS Spring series, with further concerts on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, in St Ives and Penryn. The other performers at Marazion will be the violinist Peter Cropper, leader of the Lindsay Quartet; the Hungarian cellist Mikios Perenyi and British pianists Gretel Dowdeswell and Sophia Rahman.

Tickets for all concerts are available from 01736 731 688. They are free for students aged eight to 22.

Psychiatric theatre

DARTINGTON Arts are staging Peter Brook’s The Man Who next week, based on psychiatrist Oliver Sacks’ book The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat. It’s an unusual choice for the Dartington Playgoers, and will be performed by an ensemble of five actors – most of whom have personal experience of working with the kind of patients whose conditions are so empathetically represented in the play. The Man Who offers us an insight into the world of those who do not conform to our popular notion of what is normal, and centres on the case studies of patients who are suffering from various forms of neurological dysfunctions.

Performances are in Studio 31, Dartington, from Wednesday, April 2 to Saturday, April 5. Box Office 01803 847070.

Night of Celtic funk

TAKE a Swedish fiddler from Dartmoor, an ex-Boomtown Rats drummer, a driving electric bass and the distinctive sound of the cittern. Add in the skirl of the Great Highland Bagpipes played by the son of a Scots Guards pipe major and you have a night of Celtic funk with Jiggerypipery for Beaford Arts’ First Tuesday event at Winkleigh village hall.

For tickets to the performance on April 1, call 01837 83209.

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