Breathe

Dancing with Strangers as part of the Longhouse community commission.

The cross-generational project has taken Breathe to Tea Dances where the artists have attempted to learn to Sequence dance. As part of our research we want to take the dancing from the Tea Dance that seems to still thrive in West Bromwich into a new context.

In the heart of a shopping centre in West Bromwich, the artist dances alone, with the echo of a small gramophone playing a soft tune. As she turns you see the sign pinned to her back ‘will you dance with me', she continues to dance, will anyone dance with her?

 Is this where the Tea Dancers shop? Would anyone want to take a break from shopping and dance?