# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Phoenix Dance: Interplay
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 08 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Phoenix Dance Theatre presents a powerful mixed bill showcasing work by internationally renowned choreographers Travis Knight & James Pett (Pett & Clausen Knight) and Ed Myhill, alongside Yusha-Marie Sorzano and Phoenix Dance Theatre’s artistic director Marcus Jarrell Willis.

This compelling evening of dance places creative collaboration at its core, exploring themes of duality and the fusion of distinct artistic voices. Featuring duet and ensemble works, each piece offers a bold and dynamic interplay between contrasting perspectives, celebrating the beauty of shared vision and artistic exchange.

About the works

Why Are People Clapping!? by Ed Myhill (restaged by Camille Giraudeau)

Set to composer Steve Reich’s Clapping Music, Why Are People Clapping?! uses rhythm as a driving force. Ed Myhill’s sense of humour is clear in the choreography as well as his appreciation for the music of life – rhythm can be found in a tennis match, footsteps in an empty street and in the beat of our own hearts – and dance can be inspired by that passion for living, from tapping your toes right up to the way our eyes scrunch up when we smile.

Next of Kin by Marcus Jarrell Willis

Originally premiering at the Ailey Citigroup Theatre in New York City in 2013, Next of Kin now enters the Interplay programme and Phoenix Dance Theatre repertoire as a newly reimagined production. The restaged work displays the witty nuances at play between two like-minded souls colliding on their journey through life.

Small Talk by Travis Knight & James Pett

In Small Talk, two figures share a room that feels both intimate and estranged. A carpet, a chair and a lamp stand as silent companions, observing the lives of two people who now struggle to recognise what has quietly slipped away between them. They hover between conflict and confused tenderness, revealing how relationships often fade not through catastrophe, but through the slow exhaustion of time.

Suite Release by Yusha-Marie Sorzano and Marcus Jarrell Willis

Artistic Director, Marcus Jarrell Willis and acclaimed choreographer, Yusha-Marie Sorzano come together to craft a work that reclaims dance as instinct, inheritance, resistance and joy. Suite Release is a new contemporary dance co-creation, focused through a lens inspired by meditation on the quiet disappearance of communal movement – and the places where it never left. Drawing from influences of hip-hop and house culture’s origins in gathering and release, the piece unfolds as ritual rather than choreography, asking audiences not just to watch but to remember.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/liverpool/phoenix-dance-interplay/200029749273656
- **Event Categories**: art, theatre, dance, entertainment, sports, health-wellness, fine-arts, meditation
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Liverpool
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Liverpool Playhouse theatre
- **lat**: 53.40647
- **long**: -2.98278
- **full address**: Liverpool Playhouse theatre, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Phoenix Dance: Interplay being held?
  - **A:** Phoenix Dance: Interplay takes place on Fri, 08 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Fri, 08 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Liverpool Playhouse theatre, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Phoenix Dance: Interplay?
  - **A:** Phoenix Dance: Interplay is organized by Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Phoenix Dance: Interplay is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Liverpool, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Phoenix Dance: Interplay sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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