Elevate Festival - Orientate: Dance Off Stage

Orientate: Dance Off Stage comes to the Barnfield Theatre on Saturday 7 November, and it's a bit different from your usual night at the theatre. Instead of taking to the main stage, the performance happens in the public spaces of the building, so you'll be watching it unfold around the foyer and the corridors rather than from a seat in the dark. It's described as a light-hearted and curious piece, and it's performed by two contemporary dance graduates.

Behind it is choreographer Jonny Hibbs, an emerging maker from Dartmoor in Devon who works with contemporary perspectives of dance. The two dancers are Nina Jones and Lily Fisher, both of whom trained on the contemporary dance programme at London Studio Centre, where they worked with industry-leading choreographers. Between them, that's three people from the South West and London bringing a new piece of contemporary dance to Exeter.

The performance is part of Elevate Festival, the Exeter Northcott Theatre's annual celebration of South-West artists. This year's festival runs from 1 to 7 November at the Barnfield Theatre, and it's built around bringing local makers and audiences together through performance, workshops and meet-ups. Alongside the dance programme, the festival commissions new writing from local playwrights through Elevate Shorts, shows work-in-progress theatre, and runs sessions on creative producing and touring. Orientate: Dance Off Stage is one of the festival's final offerings, and since it's staged in the public spaces of the theatre, it's a good way to see the building used in a way you wouldn't normally expect.

It's a short one: 30 minutes with no interval, and it starts at 6:00 PM on Saturday 7 November. Entry is free, so you can just turn up and watch it happen in the foyer.