Live Events

A showcase of original works of music and dance for short films, including a film performance of Ballets Jooss’ 1935 Danse Macabre, by students of South West Music School and Youth Dance Academy. This performance sees the students performing their works live alongside newly digitised footage from the Dartington Film Archive.

Labelled “the best acoustic group in the country” by Show of Hand’s Phil Beer, Ashley Hutchings’ new band presents a semi-acoustic programme of folk and traditional song.

Inua Ellams is a word and graphic artist with a reputation for iconic imagery, unashamed beauty and attention to detail.

The Silk String Quartet is a young professional London-based Chinese string instrument group of the highest quality.

“Magical and beautiful” Total Theatre Magazine

Our Young Artist series, presented in collaboration with South West Music School,
showcases the school’s most talented musicians from across the region.

“The girl is a genius” Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2
With support from Totnes musician Griselda Sanderson.

The early music ensemble, here with soprano Elizabeth Dobbin, presents the wonderful treasure of Baroque solo vocal literature accompanied by the full colour and beauty of original continuo and obligato instruments.

Across the Deep Blue Sea features puppetry, physical comedy and the odd squirt of water! Family theatre for everyone aged 3 and up.

Exeter Chamber Choir and Devon Baroque, conducted by Andrew Daldorph and led by Margaret Faultless, perform J.S. Bach’s The Passion of St. John.

The first in a series of energetic and inspirational performances given by National Youth Jazz Collective’s regional members, led by professional jazz musicians singer/pianist Pete Churchill, saxophonist Mick Foster and baritone player Issie Barratt.

This collaborative performance is part of a national fortnight celebrating the country’s young, exceptionally talented musicians and dancers.

A shadow play for adults and children… The Clockwork Moth presents Philip Pullman’s macabre and humorous fable of unravelling fortunes, where truth and fiction are woven together and the cogs of fate are winding.

Headlining major international festivals from Day One, the Urban Folk Quartet won the Spanish International Folk Competition on only their fourth performance and are due to release their debut album in March 2010.

Visuals, music and movement cascade amidst raging physicality as the dancers explore degrees of twoness, creating exquisite tensions through cooperation and conflict.

Founded by Harry Blech in 1949 as the UK’s first chamber orchestra, the London Mozart Players is regarded as one of the finest ensembles, bringing together outstanding musicians from the UK and abroad to perform music of the highest quality.

Written in 1860 by Charles Dickens but reclaimed for a contemporary audience in this vibrant new stage adaptation.

Dulsori rekindle the spirit of ancient Korean festivals where the audience and performer energy combine together.

One of the South West’s leading young dance companies presents their unique style of physical story telling.

Legendary trumpet player & jazz luminary Steve Waterman and award-winning singer/pianist Pete Churchill are joined by two of the nation’s most in demand rhythm section players, bassist Mark Hodgson and drummer Andrew Bain.

FREE family concert with award-winning singer/pianist Pete Churchill, bassist Mark Hodgson, drummer Andrew Bain and leading Devon-based members of the National Youth Jazz Collective.

Stan’s Cafe present a lo-fi sci-fi docu-drama set in a world where oil has run out and where the cast generate all the power the show requires live on stage using a range of ageing technologies.

Touching, comic and resolutely hopeful, this is a unique collection of three works by the ever-surprising international ensemble, Lone Twin Theatre: Alice Bell, Daniel Hit By A Train and The Festival.

Eliza Carthy visits Dartington with Barney Morse Brown (Imagined Village) and Phil Alexander (Salsa Celtica).