As part of the International Dance Festival running in Birmingham from 1-22 May 2016, artistic charity, Dance Xchange will be performing high energy, entertaining dance and theatre performances in outdoor spaces on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) campus.

There will be four exciting performances taking place over two days during the month of May 2016, and patients, visitors and staff are all welcome to watch this innovative outdoor dance masterpiece.

Each show will take place on the paved area outside the main entrance of the QEHB. Details and times of each performance can be found below:

Phone Box

Phone Box brings to life this nostalgic British icon with thrilling dance to an upbeat soundtrack. You’ll be captivated and amazed as you watch an impressive feat of acrobatic and physical moves in and on this vintage red telephone box.

Phone Box will take place on Friday 6 May 2016 at 11:00 and 13:00.

RIDE

RIDE is an innovative and visually arresting outdoor dance theatre work that explores the nature of journeying in ‘Stanley’, a customised 1980’s Ford Orion. RIDE portrays the story of three men whose separate paths coincide for a short time as they discover a most curious thing, a car that seems to have a life of its own. These four souls, three men and one machine take a strange, exciting journey together, on which they discover and explore man and machines reliance on each other, and themselves.

RIDE will take place on Tuesday 10 May 2016 at 11:00 and 13:00.

If you would like to take a break from the hospital building and watch some fantastic dance and theatre performances please join us.

For more information on this year’s festival, please see the International Dance Festival website and the 2016 festival trailer.