Mother Computer: Folk Dances From The Future

Imogen Reeve & Co bring Mother Computer to the Auditorium at Exeter Phoenix on Monday 23 November, starting at 7.30pm. It's a dance performance that puts ancient folklore and imagined futures in the same room, with the night opened by a seven-minute curtain raiser from Exeter College.

Three performers move through a series of mythical female archetypes — witches, mermaids, mothers, snakes and warriors — as old folklore collides with imagined futures. The piece opens with an act of physical endurance and draws on these enduring female figures to ask how stories of womanhood are carried, inherited and reimagined, playing out the tension between tradition and technological progress. The choreography takes its cue from collective folk practices, shifting between unison and disruption, with 'shaking' as its central movement language.

Visually, reflective metallic materials evoke futuristic technologies and robotic forms that soften into fluid, organic shapes reminiscent of rivers, clouds and mythical creatures, blurring the boundaries between human and machine, nature and technology, past and future. The show runs for 60 minutes, with the curtain raiser by Exeter College coming before it. The main feature is Mother Computer, and the company's work includes Post Truth Whatever and Discopia.

Tickets are Pay What You Can between £8 and £16, with a £6 price for students and under-25s, though there's a £1.50 ticketing system charge on top. It's at the Auditorium in Exeter Phoenix, Monday 23 November, 7.30pm.