Performance

KISMET

KISMET received good reviews and was appreciated by all its audiences. Virtual Motion Dance Company has performed excerpts of KISMET to various venues as part of a community and education programme and to theatres and festivals. The last being ‘Dancing the World’ in June 2006 at Dance City, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

‘Helen Smith’s Kismet is absolutely electrifying: a series of Indian martial arts inspired sequences filtered through an urban sensibility and executed with laser precision by its five dancers’
The Stage 5th June 2006

BUTTERFLY

A new production ‘Butterfly’ featuring an all male cast is a vibrant dance performance taking influences researched by Helen’s interest in Asian and Western culture.

‘Butterfly’ premiered at Dance City in Oct 2007 and was recently performed at Leicester Festivals. It will be performed at Leicester Cathedral as part of the Special Olympics being held in Leicester in July this year.

Butterfly is also involved in a dance and music exchange with Japan and the company will partner with ‘The Sage’ Gateshead, The Center for Advanced Training Program DFES, Dance City, Newcastle Upon Tyne and Critical Mass Agency Leicester.