First, a word from the audience (of primary school children): “The costumes were sick!” says one, raving about the dancing skeletons. Another says: “I have a question, was it meant to scare us?”
This is not your average kids’ Christmas show. It is the first family offering from National Dance Company Wales, with choreographer Lea Anderson at the helm. Anderson is best known as creator of the all-female and all-male dance groups the Cholmondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs, with their accessible art-school aesthetic inspired by film and pop culture. Since losing her Arts Council funding in 2011, Anderson’s work has appeared more sporadically, on film, in clubs and galleries and stages around the world.
